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Definition of Cheliferous
1. Adjective. Having chelae.
Definition of Cheliferous
1. a. Having cheliform claws, like a crab.
Definition of Cheliferous
1. Adjective. Having chelae (cheliform claws) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheliferous
Literary usage of Cheliferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"cheliferous segment oval, yellowish ; claws short and stout, testaceous at the
segment is finely pubescent. tips. Appendages, viewed laterally, prominent, ..."
2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1885)
"This division comprises three orders: — 1st, the Amphipoda, or Leaping Shrimps,
having the fore-legs generally large and cheliferous, and the body ..."
3. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... (and consequently possessing seven pairs of legs), of which, at least, the
anterior pair is of a large size and more or less cheliferous. ..."
4. Proteus; Or, Unity in Nature. by Charles Bland Radcliffe (1877)
"It is possible to see why it is that the maxillae and the base of the large
cheliferous palps of the spider should contain caecal prolongations of the ..."
5. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1759)
"... or claws : fix of the hinder ones on each fide, he fays, are cheliferous.
This account differing from that given by the ingenious Mr. Turberville ..."
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