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Webster 1913 Edition

Palpus

‖

Pal′pus

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Palpi

(#)

.

[NL. See

.]

(Zool.)

A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids;

as, the mandibular

palpi

, maxillary

palpi

, and labial

palpi

. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also

palp

. See Illust. of

and

.