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Answer for the clue "Snail appendage ", 4 letters:
palp

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n. 1 (context zoology English) A pedipalp, an appendage found near the mouth in invertebrates; has a variety of functions but is often primarily used for predate. 2 A fleshy part of a fingertip. vb. To feel, to explore by touch.

Usage examples of palp.

Randy approached and palped its contents cautiously, unsure of what to do with the strange offering.

While he recited the message, Randy scuttled toward his ankles, palped his trouser cuffs, and began to climb his leg.

Moghedien gasped at the sudden feel of fingers stroking her mind, palping her soul.

The bot stepped into the crate, root tendrils unfurling from her calves and palping the surface of the soil like so many slender tentacles.

She was free of her frequent burden, for Randy was roaming around the yard, palping everything she came across and meeping frantically.

Randy was already palping Barnum and Baraboo, the calliopes, meeping her delight at seeing them again.

That cumbersome black undercarriage and two pairs of elongated, limp tarsi and a pair of flaccid palps should by rights drag them back down to earth and thus evolutionary annihilation.

She was free of her frequent burden, for Randy was roaming around the yard, palping everything she came across and meeping frantically.

The first of the ten pheromones was a simple grouping stimulus, causing large numbers of workers to gather as the chemical was spread from palp to palp.

She clacked her palps indifferently, blew a large bubble of green spearmint, and popped it with lively report.

The three Ween went into a hurried consultation, then clacked palps in reluctant agreement.

What—" The irate leader clacked his jeweled palps with a sound like a popped paper bag, staring at the disguised Groaci.

Palps and chelae caressed her naked limbs and urged her, perhaps sensing new steadiness, conscious direction of her movements.

The faces-all mandibles and palps and compound eyes-were more like those of insects than spiders or anything else that Carla knew from experience.

The guard was crouched, holding up her fork and flail in trembling palps, whistling with terror.