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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEDIPALPUS

Ped `i *pal "pus, n.; pl. Pedipalpi. Etym: [NL. See Pes, and Palpus. ](Zoöl.)

 

Defn: One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.