palpus
Example Sentences
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Each short palpus has a large middle joint and a small joint at the tip.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
