Definitions for palpus

palpus pal·pus

Spelling: [pal-puh s]
IPA: /ˈpæl pəs/

Palpus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in palpus (alppsu).

Definitions for palpus

noun

  1. an appendage attached to an oral part and serving as an organ of sense in insects, crustaceans, etc.

Origin of palpus

1805-15; New Latin, special use of Latin palpus a stroking, caress, palm of the hand; akin to feel

Examples for palpus

(d.) palpus, close to the upper segment of the pedicel of first cirrus.

The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.

In x-notata (fig. 435) the palpus is as long as the cephalothorax, and the tarsus and palpal organ small and round.

When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.

The palpus of the male (fig. 339) has large and complicated appendages at the end.

In montana (fig. 435a) the palpus is still shorter, the tibia thicker, and the tarsus and palpal organ larger.

Each maxilla bears a slender feeler or palpus composed of five segments.

Near the root or base of the mandibles on each side is a jointed feeler, or palpus; but spiders have no antenn.

The mouth-parts in this genus are much as in Tomocerus, the maxillæ ending in a lacinia and palpus.

Word Value for palpus
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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