palpocil

English

Etymology

See palpus and cilium.

Noun

palpocil (plural palpocils)

1. (zoology) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “palpocil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)