palpus
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The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis
When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
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.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.
From Time Magazine Archive
The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. µ They have mandibles, modified a poison fa?gs, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The fore wings should slope slightly forwards so that a line drawn from the point of one to the point of the other will just miss the head and palpi.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
The blue-green on the upper surface of the wings is very resplendent and changeable, and the palpi and thorax beneath are covered with numerous whitish spots.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
Male: Cephalothorax, palpi, sternum, and most of legs yellowish; abdomen dark brown; metatarsi dark, tibiæ infuscated; mandibles reddish brown; tips of male palpi dark.
From New West Indian Spiders Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXIII, Art. XLI, pp. 639-642 by Nathan Banks
