feelers in English

noun
1
an animal organ such as an antenna or palp that is used for testing things by touch or for searching for food.
The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name.
synonyms:antennatentacletactile/sensory organantennule
noun

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1. Hanoi, meanwhile, had sent out peace feelers.

2. Tuco must've put out, like, you know, feelers.

3. 2 Their intelligence agency, the Kempeitai, put out feelers to nationalists like Ngo Dinh Diem.

4. The Cicada's antennae (feelers) are quite small and bristle-like

5. The government has put out some feelers to gauge people's reactions to the plan.

6. Although commonly called “feelers”, the Antennae are much more than just tactile receptors

7. Clive felt delicate feelers worming through his mind, draining his pain, his fear.

8. Synonyms for Antennae include aerials, bullwhips, feelers, probes, projection, protuberances, receivers, sensors, whips and whiskers

9. I'd put out feelers to retailers, to auctioneers, and it was coming up empty.

10. I'll try to put out some feelers to gauge people's reactions to our proposal.

11. An order of Arachnidans or spiders, whose feelers are extended before the head, armed with a forceps

12. Synonyms for Barbels include feelers, antennae, tentacles, antennules, barbs, hair, pedipalps, tactors, whiskers and horn

13. Crustaceans are animals that usually have a hard covering, or exoskeleton , and two pairs of antennas, or feelers

14. Antennule (noun) a small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of Crustacea Etymology: [Dim

15. Crustaceans are animals that usually have a hard covering, or exoskeleton, and two pairs of antennas, or feelers

16. Their government is putting out feelers through a neutral delegation; they are clearly anxious for a rapprochement.

17. It's pretty much just a giant insect with legs and feelers galore that was once regarded as an inferior, repulsive food.

18. A kind of leaping insect related to the grasshopper, though differing from the latter in that it has prominent feelers at the tip of its abdomen.

19. Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil, imagining all those legs and feelers getting stuck between their teeth.

20. Or... you sit on it and you put out some discreet feelers to Wilkerman's less savory kids and you offer not to file the papers and you get rid of Daddy.

21. Aquarians tend to be independent thinkers and leaders but can easily be misunderstood by others - even those in their inner circles.Aquarians might not always show their emotions - but they’re deep feelers who tend to keep things close to the chest

22. One of the two feelers is to Abutted against a front surface of said uncut lens and the other of which is to be Abutted against a rear surface of said lens ; and display device controlled by said calculation/control apparatus so as to display at least an angular range (¿1 and/or ¿2) of said vector radius which is judged to be not large enough