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Definition of Cheliped
1. a leg bearing a large chela in decapod crustaceans [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheliped
Literary usage of Cheliped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"2, inner surface of the hand of the larger cheliped of a male. 2s and 2*>, outer
surface of the hand of the larger cheliped in two males. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The crab's cheliped was detached onto the right forefoot of the otter, which then
fled to a ... If the crab detached a cheliped during the attack phase, ..."
3. Synopsis of the True Crabs (Brachyura) of Monterey Bay, California by Frank Walter Weymouth (1910)
"Carpus of cheliped with a single spine above at distal end; dactyls of ambulatory
legs, especially those of last pair, much flattened. C. magister dd. ..."
4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1876)
"The chelipeds of the female closely resemble the smaller cheliped of the male.
... The fingers of the larger cheliped are very short, the dactylus does not ..."
5. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"The smaller cheliped in the fei of the male but the larger ... the ischium is
like that of the smaller cheliped and t the same but stouter and furnished ..."
6. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1862)
"Left cheliped very small, scarce over-reaching the extremity of the carpus of
the right one, slender, rather compressed, spinulose and ..."
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