Pedipalpus

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

  Pedipalpus \Ped`i*pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Pedipalpi}. [NL. See {Pes},
     and {Palpus}.] (Zool.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]