Synonyms for palp

Grammar : Noun

Spell : palp

Phonetic Transcription : pælp

Définition of palp

Origin : "feeler," 1842, from French palpe, from Latin palpus "feeler," related to palpare "to touch, feel" (see feel (v.)).

As in feeler : noun anything that investigates by touch

Example sentences :

A second ramus, the “exopodite,” often is also retained in the form of a palp or feeler.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 » by Various

This form is retained, with little alteration in some adult Copepoda, where the biramous “palp” still aids in locomotion.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

A palp sprouts on the mandible and the median eye disappears.
Extract from : « The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume II (of 4) » by Francis Maitland Balfour

Projecting from each side of the head of a butterfly is a fluffy structure, the palp.
Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter

The third one was alive, as was shown by a rhythmic movement of the palp on the right side.
Extract from : « Wasps » by George W. Peckham

First maxill (Fig. 7) two-jointed, palp and second joint armed with spines.
Extract from : « Journal of Entomology and Zoology: Volume 6, Number 4, December 1914 » by Various

Behind this jaw is a short leg, formed like a walking leg, and known as the 'palp.'
Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various

In bugs and aphids the lacinia is a slender needle-like piercer (fig. 2, III), while the palp is wanting.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 » by Various

Palp, a jointed finger-like structure on the oral appendages of arthropods; oral appendages found in mollusca.
Extract from : « A Guide for the Study of Animals » by Worrallo Whitney

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