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Definition of Pincerlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pincerlike
Literary usage of Pincerlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities: Part I. Introductory: The by William Henry Holmes (1919)
"(b) Chipping thin-edged bits of stone held in one hand with a pincerlike or a
notched bone tool held in the other hand and moved with an " impulsive twist," ..."
2. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"Some of the short-spined tropical urchins are reported to be hazardous because
they have tiny pincerlike organs, ..."
3. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Scorpion showing the special development of certain mouth parts (the maxillary
pulpi) aa pincerlike organs for grasping. On the posterior tip of the body is ..."
4. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"A deep blood-red coloured prawn (Alpheus) darts from concealment and hastily
buries itself in the sandy bottom of the pool, snapping its pincerlike claw ..."
5. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"He has been noticed to feed the anemone with his pincerlike claws.' And when he
casts his shell for a larger one,' he carefully detaches the helpless ..."
6. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"... all through the room Juvenile lobsters are flitting about; But they cannot
compare With that brute over there With his pincerlike claws and his terrible ..."
7. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"It will fearlessly attack any creature that affronts it, and will close its
pincerlike forelegs on any object thrust in its path. The forelegs are very long ..."
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