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Definition: PALPUS |
PALPUSNoun1. A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera. |
Etymology: Palpus \Pal"pus\, noun; plural Palpi. [New Latin expression. See Palp.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Touch | Hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PALPUS |
| English words defined with "PALPUS": Palp, Palped, Palpi, Palpiform, Palpigerous, Palpless. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PALPUS": Epalate ♦ Labipalpus ♦ Palpable, Palpicorn, Palpocil, Pedipalpus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PALPUS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (palpus). |
| Language | Translations for "PALPUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | brirth (antenna, palp). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пипалце (barb, cirrus, feeler, palp). (various references) | |
Farsi | سبیل (Mustache), زاءده بندبندی . (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapogató (cirri, cirrus, feeler, fringe, horn, palp, tentacle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alpuspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tremor (didder, dither, quake, quassation, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, tremor, trepidation, vibration, wave). (various references) | |
Russian | щупальце (antenna, feeler, palp, tentacle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pipak (antenna, feeler, palp, tentacle). (various references) | |
Spanish | palpo (antenna, palp). (various references) | |
Swedish | palpus. (various references) | |
Turkish | dokungaç (palp). (various references) | |
Ukranian | щупальце (antenna, feeler, palp, tentacle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "PALPUS" (pronounced 'Pal"pus'): Apus, Campus, Canopus, Carpus, Cippus, Corpus, Dipterocarpus, Encarpus, Eumolpus, Euripus, grampus, hippocampus, Labipalpus, lupus, mesohippus, metacarpus, Miohippus, mopus, Opus, Orohippus, Pappus, Pedipalpus, Pithecanthropus, Pliohippus, Porpus, Protohippus, rumpus, Scapus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-p-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: palps, pulps, pupal, pupas. | |
-2 letters: alps, laps, palp, pals, paps, plus, pula, pulp, puls, pupa, pups, salp, saul, slap, upas. | |
-3 letters: alp, als, asp, lap, las, pal, pap, pas, pul, pup, pus, sal, sap, sau, spa, sup, ups. | |
-4 letters: al, as, la, pa, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-p-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: appulse, papules, upleaps. | |
+2 letters: applauds, applause, appulses, papulose, platypus, supplant, supposal. | |
+3 letters: applauses, appliques, populaces, populates, pupilages, sparkplug, supplants, suppliant, supposals. | |
+4 letters: applauders, applesauce, curlpapers, platypuses, popularise, propagules, pupillages, sparkplugs, superplane, supplanted, supplanter, supplejack, suppliance, suppliants, supplicant, supplicate, supposable, supposably. | |
+5 letters: applesauces, depopulates, polyphagous, popularised, popularises, popularizes, populations, postnuptial, pourparlers, pseudopodal, repopulates, semipopular, superplanes, superplayer, supplanters, supplanting, supplejacks, suppliances, suppliantly, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates, supportable, unstoppable, unstoppably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 4C 50 55 53 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-.. .--. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01001100 01010000 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A L P U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 004C 0050 0055 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)503546505553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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