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Cheliform   Listen
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Cheliform  adj.  (Zool.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.





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"Cheliform" Quotes from Famous Books



... peculiar for the spinous character of the carapace and cheliform legs. Every spine, however, is repeated in both the other species, only less developed. We find the rostrum furnished with four lateral teeth on each side, a character which also exists in each of the other species; and although close observation may detect a slightly ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various


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