Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having chelæ: said of the chelate limbs of erustaceans, and of animals of which have chelæ. —
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab.
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- adjective Having
chelae (cheliform claws )
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- adjective having chelae
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Examples
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Beneden's statement that a cheliferous Isopod (Tanais Dulongii), belonging, according to Milne-Edwards, to the same family as the common
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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In the cheliferous Isopods (Tanais) the heart resembles that of the
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Prawn-form, in which the median eye has become indistinct, the spine of the labrum, and the outer branches of the cheliferous and ambulatory feet have been lost, the mandibular palpi and the abdominal feet have acquired distinct joints and setae, and the branchiae come into action.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The terminal setae of the second pair of antennae project between the cheliferous feet.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
reesetee commented on the word cheliferous
Bearing a pincer-like organ or claw, as with crustaceans and arachnids.
November 20, 2007