piercers's Usage Examples:

Within the mouth lie a pair of slender piercers (fig.

I very much deplore the practice used by some stores of two piercers firing their guns at the same time.

Mandibles and first maxillae modified as piercers; second maxillae fused to form a jointed, grooved rostrum.

Mandibles fused into a piercer; first maxillae developed as piercers; palps of both pairs of maxillae present; hypopharynx wanting.

The piercing portions of the latter - representing their inner lobes or laciniaelie median to the mandibular piercers in the natural position of the organs.

The Thysanoptera, small insects with firmly chitinized cuticle, are recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws - the mandibles acting as piercers and maxillae retaining their palps (see fig.

Within the groove of the rostrum two pairs of slender piercers - often barbed at the tip - work to and fro.

Hinds believe that the paired piercers are the inner lobes of the maxillae, and the unpaired piercer the left mandible, the right mandible being absent.

2, IV) in which the slender piercers (mandibles and first maxillae) work to and fro.

First maxillae also modified as piercers; maxillae of both pairs with distinct palps.