Words Like CHELICERA

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3 Alternative Words Similar to chelicera

1 Appendage Noun Synonym Words Like Appendage

2 Extremity Noun Synonym Words Like Extremity

3 Member Noun Synonym Words Like Member

5 definitions of chelicera

1 One of the anterior pair of appendages of a scorpion; a short, three-jointed organ ending in a prehensile claw. See cut under scorpion.

2 The corresponding organ in a spider, which terminates in a sharp joint folding down on the preceding one like the blade of a pocket-knife on the handle, and having at its extremity the opening of a poison-gland.

3 Also in English form chelicere.

4 One of the prehensile claws found on the proboscises of chelicerates (spiders and scorpions).

5 either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing

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