Definitions for palps

palps palp

Spelling: [palp]
IPA: /pælp/

Palps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in palps (alpps).

Definitions for palps

noun

  1. a palpus.

Examples for palps

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for palps
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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