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chelicerae

chelicerae is the plural of chelicera.

Meaning of chelicera

Noun

chelicera (plural chelicerae)

  1. Either of the prehensile claws found on the proboscis of chelicerates (horseshoe crabs, sea spiders and arachnids).

Questions about chelicerae

What is chelicerae the plural of?
Chelicerae is the plural of chelicera.

Words near chelicerae in the dictionary

  1. chelfies
  2. Chelford
  3. Chelfs
  4. cheli-
  5. chelicera
  6. chelicerae
  7. cheliceral
  8. cheliceratan
  9. chelicerate
  10. chelicerates
  11. chelid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chelicerae (page history and authors); chelicera (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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