chelicera

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Определение chelicera в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

One of the prehensile claws found on the proboscises of spiders and scorpions

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida

{i} pair of fang-like or claw-like appendages (in spiders and other arachnids)

either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing

One of the prehensile claws found on the probosces of spiders and scorpions

They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects

Расстановка переносов

che·lic·er·a

Этимология

() Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek χηλή + κέρας ‘horn’.