English Dictionary:
- 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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