Palpus

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palpus \Pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Palpi}. [NL. See {Palp}.] (Zool.)
     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}.
     [1913 Webster]