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Definition of Chelipeds
1. cheliped [n] - See also: cheliped
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelipeds
Literary usage of Chelipeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"The chelipeds of Galathea and P. longicornis transfer food to the mouth, and in
the latter also assist locomotion, being pressed against a surface ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
""When irritated the crab moves its chelipeds so as to place the ... Melia has
lost the direct use of its chelipeds as organs of defense and offense, ..."
3. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes: Being by John Stanley Gardiner (1903)
"(2) The chelipeds are only about 2£ times as long as the carapace. (3) The
chelipeds are frosted over with tiny granules set in short rows athwart the ..."
4. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1893)
"The chelipeds and walking-legs are elongate and slender. ... The very long
chelipeds make it conspicuous. The third maxillipeds have the third joint longer ..."
5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"The chelipeds are slender and fully as long as in ... 2) in having much longer
chelipeds, the merus projecting much farther beyond the sides of the carapax, ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1904)
"The injuries to the right chelipeds were 50 per cent greater than those of ...
(c) There were 25 per cent more injuries to the right chelipeds than to the ..."
7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1877)
"chelipeds shorter than second pair, fingers as widely gaping, ... chelipeds stout,
longer thnn the second pair by almost the length of the hand, ..."
8. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson (1905)
"chelipeds in male with digital process of propodus armed with two teeth. ...
Carpus of chelipeds more than half the length of the body, longer than the ..."
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