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CHELICERA (chelicerae)
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Irregular inflected form: chelicerae
Dictionary entry overview: What does chelicera mean?
• CHELICERA (noun)
The noun CHELICERA has 1 sense:
1. either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing
Familiarity information: CHELICERA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("chelicera" is a kind of...):
appendage; extremity; member (an external body part that projects from the body)
Derivation:
cheliceral (of or relating to or resembling chelicerae)
chelicerous (having chelicerae)
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