Do we say antennae or antennas

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Behind these, on the under side of the body, are two pairs of long feelers, or antennae, followed by six pairs of jaws folded against one another over the mouth, and five pairs of legs, the foremost of these being the great pinchers, or claws, of the lobster.

They usually grow wings in certain stages of their life and possess feelers or antennae.

It is eight-legged, and in place of the normal insect antennae it has pedipalps.

He had the doctor's word for it that if he could get through to evening in safety he would be all right; but it is not very exhilarating to be waiting for symptoms, and to keep on glancing at your bootjack to see whether it is still a bootjack or whether it has begun to develop antennae and legs.

It was a beautiful beetle, very slim and graceful in shape, with singularly long and fine antennae.

Standing half naked in the water, his body lashed by the foul antennae of the devil-fish, Gilliatt looked at the devil-fish and the devilfish looked at Gilliatt.

What's the King doing?" "He's poised, feeling with his antennae, sensing his direction.

He mounted a step, waved his antennae, there was a great indrawn breath of silence, and then Sylvia, waiting with agreeable curiosity to hear how a big orchestra would really sound, gasped and held her breath.

A power-driven dynamo took the place of the more feeble batteries at Poldhu, converters to increase the power displaced the induction coil, and many sending-wires, or antennae, were used instead of one.

I had nothing to do but sit perfectly still and let each ant, as it ran up, touch me with its antennae, get the counter-sign, and turn back to the village ant-hill.

The picture represents a group of stalked barnaclesthose shrimps fixed by their antennae, which modern science, I believe, calls Lepas anatifera; by the side of these stands a little goose, and the suggestion of course is that the latter has slipped out of the former, although the draughtsman has been far too conscientious to represent the occurrence.

Some people are born with spiritual antennae and some without.

These objects were slipping inertly by or moving along, waving pairs of black antennae.

FOOTNER, GLADYS. Antennae.

FOOTNER, HULBERT. Antennae.

In its next larval stage it has six pairs of swimming feet, two compound eyes, and two antennae or feelers, and still lives an independent free-swimming life.

Among Insects, the various Genera of the Butterflies differ in the combination of the little rods which sustain their wings, in the form and structure of their antennae, of their feet, of the minute scales which cover their wings, etc.

Antennae as long as the body, 11-jointed, first joint thick knobbed, second very small, terminal longer than third, pointed with a blunt tooth beyond the middle.

This differs from Australica in having the thorax narrower, and the antennae longer and less thickened at the end.

Antennae elongate, with a fusiform club much hooked at the extremity.

Head, thorax, and abdomen grey above, beneath paler: antennae black, ringed with white.

" The son coolly twirled the ends of his mustachewhich protruded from each side of his mouth like the antennae of a catfishand gazed impudently in his father's face.

The oriental emeralds and rubies are less vulgarized and cast brilliant, rutilant flames, but they remind one of the green and red antennae of certain omnibuses which carry signal lights of these colors.

He counted upon what he had called her moral antennae to make no mistakes.

CHAPTER XXI Francis Markrute's moral antennae upon which he prided himself informed him that all was not as it should be between this young bride and bridegroom.

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In the course of these swimming expeditions he ate all the living beings he encountered fastened to the rocks by antennas and arms.

Soon I'm in the depths of a dark, sweet sleep; my ears alone keep watch and turn like sensitive antennas towards vague sounds of doors and bells ...

Magdalen King-Hall (A); 16Jun72; R532292. KING, RONOLD W. P. Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides, by Ronold W. P. King, Harry Rowe Mimno & Alexander H. Wing.

Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides.

WING, ALEXANDER H. Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides.

Magdalen King-Hall (A); 16Jun72; R532292. KING, RONOLD W. P. Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides, by Ronold W. P. King, Harry Rowe Mimno & Alexander H. Wing.

Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides.

WING, ALEXANDER H. Transmission lines, antennas and wave guides.

This motion is transmitted in waves of varying intensity and frequency which are sent into space by the mechanism of the broadcasting station, which consists of a sound conducting apparatus induced by strong electrical currents from generators or batteries and extensive aërial or antennas wires high in the air.

Do we say   antennae   or  antennas