antennate
English
Etymology
From antenna + -ate.
Verb
antennate (third-person singular simple present antennates, present participle antennating, simple past and past participle antennated)
- (entomology, of an insect) To bring one's antennae into contact with to another insect.
- 2005, Peter J.B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon, Advances in the Study of Behavior, →ISBN, page 10:
- Workers attempt to avoid the queen, but if antennated try to escape or exhibit a submissive crouching posture, while the queen starts to bite and pull their legs and antennae.
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Derived terms
- antennation
Latin
Adjective
antennāte
- vocative masculine singular of antennātus