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Definition of Palps
1. palp [v] - See also: palp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palps
Literary usage of Palps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"2 ft), whose appendicular nature ind by short, cylindrical palps r segments. ....
The maxillary palps have usually three, the labial cither two or four ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"Most of the ciliary currents of the contiguous faces of the palps and of the lips
are ... The outer or non-contiguous faces of both palps and lips (Fig. ..."
3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Wingshell Atrina Rigida by Benjamin Harrison Grave (1911)
"LABIAL palps. The palps consist of two thin muscular lamellae which extend ...
The epithelium lining the palps is continuous with that of the mouth and Drew ..."
4. Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism by Edwin Ray Lankester (1880)
"... it is true, whilst the palps and daggers of the spider have dwindled to a beak
projecting from the front of the globular unjointed body. ..."
5. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller, Charles Darwin (1883)
"the maxillary palps elongate also, in order to act still as organs of touch.
But the maxillary palps are soon outstripped by the laminae, the labial palps, ..."
6. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller (1883)
"the maxillary palps elongate also, in order to act still as organs of touch.
But the maxillary palps are soon outstripped by the laminae, ..."
7. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"Black palps with four pale bands. Apex of palps white. ... Dark brown palps with
two narrow bands and a white tip. Legs with last three hind tarsal segments ..."
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