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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}. 

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