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

This was possible because the white stylet had no copper and therefore no electrical conductivity to be impeded by paring down the receiver in the first place.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2020

If you review the film, you can see the long, sharp stylet in the tardigrade’s head.

From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013

Leaves 1½–2° long, opposite, abruptly pinnate, a thick stylet taking the place of the odd leaflet.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers