Feeler - English meaning

noun

Either of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods.

Usage examples:

Bugs use their antennae to detect blood heat

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A small antenna, especially either of the first pair of antennae in a crustacean.

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A nauplius consists of the first three cephalic segments and the appendages belonging to those segm…

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A sharp projection near the end of an arrow, fish hook, or similar object, which is angled away from the main point so as to make extraction difficult.

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It was a simple hunting arrow, without a particularly sharp edge or barbs that would make it harder…

noun

A small horse of a hardy breed originally from north africa.

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The rancho riding herd is usually 27 horses, mainly spanish barbs and mixes of that breed.

verb

Cut or style (a person's hair).

Usage examples:

He has barbed the hair of any celebrity you can think of

noun

Any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals.

Usage examples:

Coarse outer hairs overlie the thick underfur

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A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.

Usage examples:

At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one…

verb

(of an animal) butt or gore (someone or something) with the horns.

noun

Each of a pair of elongated segmented appendages near the mouth of an arthropod, usually concerned with the senses of touch and taste.

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The courtship behavior of these males begins with circular rotations of the palpi (modified appenda…

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Another term for palp.

noun

Each of a pair of elongated segmented appendages near the mouth of an arthropod, usually concerned with the senses of touch and taste.

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Each of the second pair of appendages attached to the cephalothorax of most arachnids. they are variously specialized as pincers in scorpions, sensory organs in spiders, and locomotory organs in horseshoe crabs.

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The second pair of appendages, the pedipalps, resemble walking legs.

noun

An organ such as an antenna that is used for testing things by touch.

Usage examples:

After reaching the maximum point in its excursion, the tactor withdrew from contact.

noun

A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs.

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The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow ten…

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A long, thin, arm of some sea animals, such as the octopus and jellyfish

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A long projecting hair or bristle growing from the face or snout of many mammals.

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Every once in a while, particularly when i take out clothes that i haven't worn since our move, i f…

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One of the long, stiff hairs that grow near the mouth of a cat, mouse, or other mammal

Usage examples:

The cat carefully cleaned the milk off its whiskers.