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Meaning of PEDIPALPUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ped`i*pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Pedipalpi}. [NL. See {Pes},
and {Palpus}.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
 
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