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Cheliform

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cheliform'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cheliform.html. 1828.