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
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
