micræsthete Biol.
(maɪˈkrɛsθiːt)
[f. Gr. µῑκρό-ς small + αἰσθητής ‘one who perceives’ (here used for ‘organ of sense’).]
One of the numerous supposed tactile organs occupying the small pores (micropores) in the dorsal plates of certain chitons.
| 1884 Moseley in Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1885) 781 These megalæsthetes and micræsthetes. 1885 ― in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXV. 45 To the organs contained within the micropores I shall give the name micræsthetes. |