palps

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  • Instead she awakened soon with tingling palps, flushed with a vision.
  • It moved to a dead goblin, held it with its palps, and sank its fangs into the body. —  Castle Roogna
  • At the end of this chain are the labial palps, a pair of which lie on either side of the mouth, that collect the food and push it into the mouth. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • The male hobo spider uses his palps to inject sperm during the mating process. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Then once the drop of sperm is on the web he will use one of his palps the stick in the sperm. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
 

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