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Definition of Chelicerae
1. chelicera [n] - See also: chelicera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelicerae
Literary usage of Chelicerae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"It measures about one twelfth inch in length. The colour is pale yellowish with
the claws of the chelicerae reddish brown. It was found in California. ..."
2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The chelicerae would seem probably to correspond with the mandibles of ...
340) to become, like the ganglion of the chelicerae, converted into part of the ..."
3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The Arachnida have only two pairs of cephalic limbs (the chelicerae and the
pedipalps), but four pairs of legs on the thorax. The attempts which have been ..."
4. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1906)
"It is held in front of the female by means of her chelicerae and pedipalps.
She continues to carry about the little cluster of spiderlings for some days ..."
5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"In nearly all of these figures, the lateral eyes are very well developed for this
stage, and are easily seen in surface views about opposite the chelicerae, ..."
6. A Zoological Pocket-book: Or, Synopsis of Animal Classification. Comprising by Emil Selenka (1890)
"With chelate chelicerae, slender legs, and abdomen of six segments. ...
Chelate chelicerae and leg-like ..."
7. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"This carries the piercing parts which are the single hypostome or dart and a pair
of piercing chitinous structures, the chelicerae which lie above the ..."
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