एक आराचिनिद के मुंह के पास फेंग-जैसे उपांगों की पहली जोड़ी में से कोई भी; अक्सर grasping और भेदी के लिए संशोधित

chelicerae's Usage Examples:

Ventral view with the prosomatic appendages cut short excepting the chelicerae (I) whose sharp retroverts are seen.

- The same scorpion carrying the now paralysed fly held in its chelicerae, the chelae liberated for attack and defence.

M Ch, The chelicerae.

The coxae of the five pairs of limbs following the chelicerae were arranged in a series on each side between the mouth, M, and the metasternites, mets.

I, The chelicerae.

The cerebral mass is in Limulus more easily separated by dissection as a median lobe distinct from the laterally placed ganglia of the cheliceral somite than is the case in Scorpio, but the relations are practically the same in the two forms. Formerly it was supposed that in Limulus both the chelicerae and the next following pair of appendages were prosthomerous, as in Crustacea, but the dissections of Alphonse Milne-Edwards (6) demonstrated VI FIG.

The position of the chelicerae of Limulus and of the ganglionic nerve-masses from which they receive their nerve-supply, is closely similar to that of the same structures in Scorpio.

The second has for its pair of appendages the small pair of limbs which in all living Arachnids is either chelate or retrovert (as in spiders), and is known as the chelicerae.

But it is necessary to remember, in the light of recent discoveries, that the sixth prosomatic pair of appendages is carried on the seventh somite of the whole series, there being two prosthomeres or somites in front of the mouth, the first carrying the eyes, the second the chelicerae; also that the first mesosomatic or genital somite is not the seventh or even the eighth of the whole series of somites which have been historically present, 1 See the article Arthropoda for the use of the term " prosthomere."

All spiders possess a pair of poison-glands, one in each of the chelicerae or mandibles and opening by means of a duct at the tip of the fang.

chelicerae's Meaning':

either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing

Synonyms:

member, appendage, extremity,

Antonyms:

nonmember,