palpigerous

English

Etymology

palpus + -gerous

Adjective

palpigerous (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Bearing a palpus.
    • 1818, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction To Entomology: Or, Elements Of The Natural History Of Insects:
      in their eyes usually on a moveable footstalk ; their palpigerous mandibles ; and their four antennæ

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for palpigerous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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