Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology: One of the jointed organs attached to the labium and maxillæ of insects; a feeler.
- noun One of the fleshy lobes at the sides of the mouth of acephalous mollusks. More fully called
labial palpus . See second cut underLamellibranchiata .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also
palp . SeeIllust. ofarthrogastra andorthoptera .
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- noun
palp
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The head has two compound eyes, an antennae to sense chemicals and the mouth parts called the palpus and proboscis.
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Lateral lobe: of the labium in Odonata, corresponds to the paraglossa with palpiger and palpus (Gerstaecker) or, more probably, to the palpus alone (Butler).
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Palpifer: any palpus-bearing part: specifically, a small sclerite hearing the maxillary palpus and itself articulated to the stipes.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Palmula: = pulvillus; q.v. Palp: a mouth feeler or palpus.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Palpi: plural of palpus; q.v. Palpicorne: with long, slender, antenna-like palpi.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Palpiger: that sclerite of the labium to which the labial palpus is attached corresponds to the palpifer of the maxilla and has been used in the same general sense.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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When completed (on an average in about two hours) the male withdraws his copulatory palpus and turns over the female, who is still inert, on to her other side, then brings his second copulatory apparatus to the female opening and starts afresh.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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The outer lobe, or palpus, is a minute membranous tubercle ending in a hair
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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