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

Ms. Perryman furthered the falsehood by directing employees to say the white stylet worked as advertised and by running trainings with doctors wherein the white stylet was a real receiver, the Justice Department accuses.

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