sense organ

Questions about sense organ

What does sense organ mean?

sense organ means "an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation".

What is another word for sense organ?

Close synonyms include sensory receptor, receptor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sense organ a common word?

sense organ is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.