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- noun Plural form of
forceps .
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Paradoxical as this may appear to Mr. Mivart, tridactyle forcepses, immovably fixed at the base, but capable of a snapping action, certainly exist on some starfishes; and this is intelligible if they serve, at least in part, as a means of defence.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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