Crossword-Solution: PALP 4 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Ses vareuses, ses chemises, ses maillots à raies bleues, furent palpés, retournés et puis enlevés à des prix quelconques, les acheteurs surfaisant pour s’amuser.

Behind this jaw is a short leg, formed like a walking leg, and known as the 'palp.' It is never used, however, for walking, but is carried straight forwards, so that the inner surfaces of its joints are close to the outer surface of the jaw.

Now, whenever the 'palp' is moved, it is rubbed against the 'teeth' in the jaw, and this consequently, in many spiders, produces a sound like the humming of a bee! In some spiders which have this apparatus, the sound produced cannot be heard by human ears.

See Palp.] (Zoöl.) Defn: 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 range of modification of which the rami or limb-branches of the limbs of Arthropoda are capable is very large, and in allied orders or even families or genera we often find what is certainly the palp of the same appendage (as determined by numerical position of the segments)--in one case antenniform, in another chelate, in another pediform, and in another reduced to a mere stump or absent altogether.