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

This was possible because the white stylet had no copper and therefore no electrical conductivity to be impeded by paring down the receiver in the first place.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Specialized neurons in the mosquito’s stylet distinguish between blood and nectar, according to a preliminary study, led by Jové, which has not yet been peer-reviewed.

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

Leaves opposite, twice abruptly pinnate, a stylet replacing the terminal leaflet; 5 pairs of elliptical leaflets, entire, glabrous and notched at the apex.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers