Definition of Chelecera
||Che*lic"e*ra (k&esl;*l&ibreve;s"&esl;*r&adot;),
n.; pl.
Cheliceræ (-rē). [NL., fr. Gr.
chhlh` claw + ke`ras horn.]
(Zoöl.) One of the anterior pair of mouth
organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied
Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and
probably with the mandibles of insects.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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