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
Ms. Perryman furthered the falsehood by directing employees to say the white stylet worked as advertised and by running trainings with doctors wherein the white stylet was a real receiver, the Justice Department accuses.
From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023
The stylet is akin to a tiny syringe evolved to penetrate skin and suck up blood from beneath.
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
Sty′letiform, shaped like a stylet; Stylif′erous, having a style, stylate; Sty′liform, style-shaped; Sty′lish, displaying style: fashionable: showy: pretending to style.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
