Definitions for palp

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Spelling: [palp]
IPA: /pælp/

Palp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in palp (alpp).

Definitions for palp

noun

  1. a palpus.

Examples for palp

First maxill (Fig. 7) two-jointed, palp and second joint armed with spines.

A palp sprouts on the mandible and the median eye disappears.

A second ramus, the “exopodite,” often is also retained in the form of a palp or feeler.

Behind this jaw is a short leg, formed like a walking leg, and known as the 'palp.'

The third one was alive, as was shown by a rhythmic movement of the palp on the right side.

palp, a jointed finger-like structure on the oral appendages of arthropods; oral appendages found in mollusca.

This form is retained, with little alteration in some adult Copepoda, where the biramous “palp” still aids in locomotion.

In bugs and aphids the lacinia is a slender needle-like piercer (fig. 2, III), while the palp is wanting.

Projecting from each side of the head of a butterfly is a fluffy structure, the palp.

Word Value for palp
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8

Words with friends

11

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