Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having palpi like horns or antennæ, as an insect; having the characters of the Palpicornia; pertaining to the Palpicornia.
- noun A long labial palpus, like an antenna.
- noun A palpicorn beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of a group of aquatic beetles (
Palpicornia ) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology, archaic One of the Palpicornia, a group of
aquatic beetles with shortclub -shapedantennae and longmaxillary palpi .
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