单词 | cheliped |
释义 | chelipedn. One of a pair of limbs bearing large claws, or chelæ, found in decapod Crustacea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > member of > limb bearing chelae cheliped1869 1869 S. I. Smith in Amer. Naturalist 3 557 The left cheliped is exactly like the larger cheliped of ordinary specimens. 1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. xi. 500 In front of these is a pair of very large legs terminating in huge claws or chelæ, and hence called chelipeds. 1922 Outward Bound Nov. 141/1 The Fiddler Crab with his one cheliped..so vastly bigger than the other. 1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth i. 34 Here the chelipeds are the second and not the first pereiopods. 1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth i. 33 (caption) Cheliped length. 1933 R. W. Hegner & J. G. Engemann Invertebr. Zool. x. 374 The thoracic region bears the first, the second, and the third maxillipeds, the pinchers or chelipeds, and four other pairs of walking legs. 1964 E. S. Reese in Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 467 The crab stands higher on its pereipods and the chelipeds are held in different attitudes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1869 |
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