CLASPER

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

2.
n.

One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

3.
n.

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.


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