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Chela

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

n. A pincerlike claw of a crustacean or arachnid, such as a lobster, crab, or scorpion.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid.

n. A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

n. In India, a dependent person occupying a position between that of a servant or slave and a disciple; hence, a disciple or novice.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The pair of pincers or nippers, or the so-called claw, which terminates some of the limbs of most Crustacea, as crabs and lobsters, formed by an enlarged propodite bearing a movably apposed dactylopodite; the last and penultimate segments of a chelate limb or cheliped so modified as to constitute a prehensile organ like a pair of pincers.

n. The similar nipper- or pincer-like claw terminating the chelicera of an arachnidan, as a scorpion. In these two senses also chele.

n. A genus of cyprinoid fishes.

n. See cheela.

n. In sponge-spicules, a microsclere consisting of a more or loss curved shaft bearing at each end a variable number of recurved processes.

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

n. a Hindu disciple of a swami

n. a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

Word Usage

"They are usually accompanied by a youthful disciple, called a "chela," a boy of from 10 to 15 years of age, who will become a fakir himself unless something occurs to change his career."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

Hindu Hindoo member extremity appendage

Variant

chelae

Form

chelate