noun
Meaning 1
An organic sensor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
sense organ
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noun
Meaning 2
an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sensory receptor, receptor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organ
Narrower terms: lateral line, lateral line organ, interoceptor, enteroceptor, exteroceptor, third eye, pineal eye, baroreceptor, chemoreceptor, thermoreceptor, eye, oculus, optic, ear, organ of hearing, inner ear, internal ear, labyrinth, semicircular canal, stretch receptor
History
Etymology
Attested from 1850–55
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: զգայարան (zgayaran) — an organic sensor
- Azerbaijani: duyğu orqanı — an organic sensor
- Chinese Mandarin: 感官 (gǎnguān) — an organic sensor
- Danish: sanseorgan — an organic sensor
- Dutch: zintuig — an organic sensor
- Dutch: zintuigorgaan — an organic sensor
- Esperanto: sensorgano — an organic sensor
- Finnish: aistinelin — an organic sensor
- Finnish: aistin — an organic sensor
- French: organe sensoriel — an organic sensor
- German: Sinnesorgan — an organic sensor
- Greek: αισθητήριο όργανο (aisthitírio órgano) — an organic sensor
- Hungarian: érzékszerv — an organic sensor
- Icelandic: skynfæri — an organic sensor
- Italian: organo sensorio — an organic sensor
- Japanese: 感覚器 (kankakuki) — an organic sensor
- Japanese: 感覚器官 (kankakukikan) — an organic sensor
- Northern Kurdish: endamê hestê — an organic sensor
- Portuguese: órgão do sentido — an organic sensor
- Portuguese: órgão sensorial — an organic sensor
- Russian: о́рган чу́вств (órgan čúvstv) — an organic sensor
- Sanskrit: अक्षन् (akṣan) — an organic sensor
- Spanish: órgano del sentido — an organic sensor
- Swedish: sinnesorgan — an organic sensor
- Ukrainian: о́рган чуття́ (órhan čuttjá) — an organic sensor