stylet
- n small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade
- The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula.
- But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses.
- Inserted under local anesthesia, the stylet adheres to the cataractous lens, freezes it, and permits removal with no danger of spillage, because there is no liquid left to spill .