单词 | palpon |
释义 | palpon Zool.|ˈpælpən| [mod. f. L. palp-us feeler, after siphon.] An individual member of a siphonophoran colony developed as a feeler; a dactylozooid.
1888Haeckel in Challenger Rep., Zool. XXVIII. 16 Palpons or Tasters... These are always simple, thin-walled, very contractile sacs, in which the proximal portion communicates with the cavity of the stem, while the distal end is closed. 1898Sedgwick Stud. Text-bk. Zool. I. 138 The structures called palpons (hydrocysts, dactylozooids) are to be looked upon as mouthless manubria of medusoids. |

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