Definition of "cheliferous" []

• Having chelae (cheliform claws) (adjective)

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• "Beneden's statement that a cheliferous Isopod (Tanais Dulongii), belonging, according to Milne-Edwards, to the same family as the common"
• "In the cheliferous Isopods (Tanais) the heart resembles that of the"
• "Prawn-form, in which the median eye has become indistinct, the spine of the labrum, and the outer branches of the cheliferous and ambulatory feet have been lost, the mandibular palpi and the abdominal feet have acquired distinct joints and setae, and the branchiae come into action."