palp
/pælp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache."
- "He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin."
- "The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head. Plunge into the dust-moted rough blackness of his hair, smooth back downward over the deep-brown nape of his neck."
- "With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows."
- "When Mariuchi caresses the plant, for example, sensuously emitting from the palps of her fingers, a siren song."
- "He tested the blade against the palp of his thumb, then returned to the living room and decisively, scrape by scrape, cut away the hex sign, leaving a halo of ragged wood."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French