Definitions
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 themouth of aspider , homologous to themandibles incrustaceans .
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Examples
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Then, no slouch he, he came at her with the other pedipalp!
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Then, no slouch he, he came at her with the other pedipalp!
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