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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of the second pair of appendages near the mouth of a chelicerate, such as a spider or horseshoe crab, used for various reproductive, predatory, or sensory functions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A maxillipalp, or maxillary palpus; the palp of an arachnidan.
  • noun A pedipalpate arachnidan.
  • Of or pertaining to a pedipalpus; resembling a pedipalp. Also pedipalpal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the Pedipalpi.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Either of a second pair of appendages, near the mouth of a spider, homologous to the mandibles in crustaceans.

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