Word Meanings - PALPI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pl. of Palpus. See Palpus.

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• PALPUS
  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
• PEDIPALPUS
  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.
• LABIPALPUS
  One of the labial palpi of an insect. See Illust. under Labium.