megalæsthete Biol.
(mɛgəˈliːsθiːt)
[f. Gr. µεγαλο- great + αἰσθητής ‘one who perceives’ (here used for ‘organ of sense’).]
A supposed tactile organ occupying the megalopore of chitons.
| 1884 Moseley in Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1885) 781 A series of elongate cylindrical organs of touch (‘megalæsthetes’). 1885 ― in Q. Jrnl. Micr. Sci. XXV. 43 To which I shall apply the name megalæsthetes, believing that they are peculiar organs of touch and are at all events peculiar to Chitonidæ. |