The smells are picked up by the palps, those long sensory appendages around the mouth.
Evolution made mosquitos into stealthy, sensitive vampires|Erica McAlister|October 15, 2020|Popular Science
The appendage, magnified 40 times, was photographed in layers with a laser to reconstruct the tongue in three dimensions.
A glowing zebrafish wins the 2020 Nikon Small World photography contest|Erin Garcia de Jesus|October 13, 2020|Science News
When the subjects moved their arms, a robotic appendage behind them simultaneously touched their backs in the same fashion.
Why do we see ghosts?|Jake Bittle|October 6, 2020|Popular Science
Underneath all those aerodynamic appendages, the mechanical bits have been similarly stimulated, taking friction out here and quickening response times there.
The Honda Civic Type-R is more fun to drive than a supercar|Jonathan M. Gitlin|October 5, 2020|Ars Technica
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, cells invaded by the coronavirus can sprout probing appendages bedecked with viral bits.
Coronavirus-infected cells sprout filaments that may spread the virus|Jack J. Lee|July 20, 2020|Science News
So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth|Brian Moynahan|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or, one of the measures might resurface as an appendage to an unrelated law.
Why Arizona is Retreating on its Immigration Law|Terry Greene Sterling|March 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Bloggers brought another microphone to an already crowded GOP media table and became an appendage of talk radio.
Why the GOP Lost the Web Race|Eric Boehlert|May 20, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Figure 212 is, however, a loop, as the circuit is spoiled on one side by an appendage.
The Science of Fingerprints|Federal Bureau of Investigation
The lip is swollen and four-lobed, but without any appendage in the notch, and is of a deep purple-brown, with yellowish markings.
Field and Woodland Plants|William S. Furneaux
The appendage attached by pintles and braces to the stern-post of a vessel, by which its course through the water is governed.
The Sailor's Word-Book|William Henry Smyth
But as its original place had been filled up by g, it was tacked on as an appendage, rather than incorporated as an element.
A Handbook of the English Language|Robert Gordon Latham
It cannot be considered a whorl, however, as the recurve on the left is spoiled by an appendage (figs. 58 and 59).
The Science of Fingerprints|Federal Bureau of Investigation
British Dictionary definitions for appendage
appendage
/ (əˈpɛndɪdʒ) /
noun
an ancillary or secondary part attached to a main part; adjunct
zoologyany organ that projects from the trunk of animals such as arthropods
botanyany subsidiary part of a plant, such as a branch or leaf