stylet

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Similar to a hypodermic needle, a nematode uses its stylet to pierce cells and pull out food -- in this case from the pseudoscorpion's hypodermis, part of the outer covering known as the integument.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

The plastic receiver, referred to as the white stylet in court documents, could be cut to size by doctors.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Mosquitoes then pierce this plastic with their needlelike proboscis called a stylet.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2020

These tardigrades feed on plants and small animals like rotifers, nematodes or even other tardigrades by piercing them with a needle-like stylet and and drinking the contents.

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013

The male palpal organs show a very long stylet curved over two times around the bulb.

From New West Indian Spiders Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXIII, Art. XLI, pp. 639-642 by Banks, Nathan