a. Zool. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Bearing chelæ or prehensile claws.

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1758.  Ellis, Barnacles, in Phil. Trans., L. 846. Six of the hinder [claws] on each side … are cheliferous.

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1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. p. cxvii. The cheliferous appendage.

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