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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various arthropods of the subphylum Chelicerata, having mouthparts with chelicerae, a body composed of two main parts, and no antennae, and including the arachnids and the horseshoe crabs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bearing cheliceræ, or small pincers, as the appendages of the merostome crustaceans.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, relating to, or belong to the Chelicerata subphylum of arachnids, horseshoe crabs etc
  • noun Any member of such group of animals

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or resembling chelicerae

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Chēlicerāta, subphylum name, from chēlicera, chelicera; see chelicera.]

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