Synonyms for palpus
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pal-puh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæl pəs |
Définition of palpus
- As in feeler : noun anything that investigates by touch
- The mouth-parts in this genus are much as in Tomocerus, the maxillæ ending in a lacinia and palpus.
- Extract from : « Our Common Insects » by Alpheus Spring Packard
- Each maxilla bears a slender feeler or palpus composed of five segments.
- Extract from : « Elementary Zoology, Second Edition » by Vernon L. Kellogg
- When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
- Extract from : « Children's Literature » by Charles Madison Curry
- In x-notata (fig. 435) the palpus is as long as the cephalothorax, and the tarsus and palpal organ small and round.
- Extract from : « The Common Spiders of the United States » by James Henry Emerton
- In montana (fig. 435a) the palpus is still shorter, the tibia thicker, and the tarsus and palpal organ larger.
- Extract from : « The Common Spiders of the United States » by James Henry Emerton
- The palpus of the male (fig. 339) has large and complicated appendages at the end.
- Extract from : « The Common Spiders of the United States » by James Henry Emerton
- The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
- Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis
- Near the root or base of the mandibles on each side is a jointed feeler, or palpus; but spiders have no antenn.
- Extract from : « An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope » by John William Griffith
- (d.) Palpus, close to the upper segment of the pedicel of first cirrus.
- Extract from : « A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) » by Charles Darwin
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