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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Palpus \Pal"pus\, n.; pl {Palpi}. [NL. See {Palp}.] (Zo["o]l.)
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
{Arthrogastra} and {Orthoptera}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Palpi \Pal"pi\, n.,
pl of {Palpus}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Palpus}.
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