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When did ignorance overcome education, for the correct plural is, "antennae"?
antenna
noun (plural antennae ) 1 Zoology a long, thin sensory appendage found in pairs on the heads of insects and some other arthropods. 2 (plural also antennas) chiefly North American or technical an aerial. 3 (antennae) the faculty of instinctively detecting and interpreting subtle signs: his political antennae remain as sharp as ever. DERIVATIVES antennal adjective antennary adjective ORIGIN C17: from Latin, alteration of antemna 'yard' (of a ship), used in plural to translate Greek keraioi 'horns (of insects)'. |
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