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Palpus
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Palpus'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/palpus.html. 1828.