Stylet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An engraving tool, a stylus.
  2. 2
    small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade wordnet
  3. 3
    A style of a plant's flower.
  4. 4
    A slender medical probe or device.
  5. 5
    A poniard or stiletto.
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  1. 6
    A stiff, slender organ of an animal.

    "Even octopuses without stylets almost certainly retain the molecular machinery necessary to build them."

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"Even octopuses without stylets almost certainly retain the molecular machinery necessary to build them."

Etymology

From French stylet (“stiletto”), from Middle French stilet (“stiletto”), from Old Italian stiletto. Doublet of stiletto.

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