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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the first pair of legs in the myriapods of the orders Chilopoda and Schizotarsia. The poison -glands with which they are provided secrete a liquid poison which runs down a canal into the chitinous claw and so into the wound made by the claw.

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