Noun: palp
| Singular | palp |
| Plural | palps; palpi |
Sample Sentences
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Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache. [2015, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time, Pan Books (2016), page 20:]
Nouns inflected like palp
sexvir,
sejmik,
sazhen,
signor,
podstakannik,
Voskresnik,
edinolichnik,
bolshevik,
bogatyr,
boublik,
Poleshuk,
sbornik,
refusnik,
ponchik,
Minim,
promyshlennik,
septemvir,
otkaznik,
silovik,
udarnik, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. * (verb): From French palper.
2. * (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
3. * Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”). See: Latin Nouns '
palpō'.