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chela

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chela [′kē·lə]
(invertebrate zoology)
A claw or pincer on the limbs of certain crustaceans and arachnids.
A sponge spicule with talonlike terminal processes.
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There was with me when I left the hills a chela [disciple] who begged for me as the Rule demands, but halting in Kulu awhile a fever took him and he died.
Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Seizing it in a chela he leaped to the floor and scurried rapidly toward the mouth of one of the burrows against the wall, into which he disappeared.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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