Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, one who ascertains the condition of organs by touch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
palpates . - noun A device for palpating.
- noun zoology, dated One of a family of
clavicorn beetles , including those which have very longmaxillary palpi .
Etymologies
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Latin, stroker.
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Examples
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Large salt depressions with basaltic rock buttes (Yeroyulanduz Lake) harbor a number of halophile vertebrate and invertebrate species, many of them rare or endemic, such as gecko Bunopus tuberculatus and scorpion Kraepelinia palpator.
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