palp

American  

[palp] / pælp /

noun

1. a palpus.

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palp British  

/ ˈpælpəs, pælp /

noun

1. either of a pair of sensory appendages that arise from the mouthparts of crustaceans and insects

2. either of a pair of tactile organs arising from the head or anterior end of certain annelids and molluscs

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palp Scientific  

/ pălp /

1. A segmented organ extending from the mouthparts of arthropods, used for touch or taste.

2. Also called palpus

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Other Word Forms

• palpal adjective

Etymology

Origin of palp

C19: from French, from Latin palpus a touching

Example Sentences

I had 103.7° fever, a blood pressure that was 80 over palp, and oxygen levels that were so low I required oxygen support at a level just below that achieved with mechanical ventilation.

From Salon

“They’ve succeeded finally in achieving a lifetime limited only by the power available to the system,” says particle physicist Burton Richter of Stanford University in Palp Alto, California, who sits on a board of advisers to Tri Alpha.

From Science Magazine

Extracellular recordings from the capitate-peg sensilla on the maxillary palp were performed as described.

From Nature

A, Front; B, side; C, back; v, vertex; f, frons; cl, clypeus; lbr, labrum; oc, compound eye; ge, gena; mn, mandible; ca, st, pa, ga, la, cardo, stipes, palp, galea, lacinia of first maxilla; sm, m, pa″, pg, sub-mentum, mentum, palp, galea of 2nd maxilla.

From Project Gutenberg

In many blood-sucking flies, for example, the galea is absent, while the lacinia becomes a strong knife-like piercer and the palp is well developed.

From Project Gutenberg