a. Bot. and Zool. [f. as prec. + -ATE2.] Formed like a forceps.

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1668.  Wilkins, Real Char., 124. Two forcipate claws.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), III. xxix. 121. These organs of this forcipate construction.

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1849.  Johnston, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. 7. 367. Rostrum triangulate, produced into a stylette and furnished on each side with a mandibular shaft forcipate at the apex.

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1862.  Cooke, Bot. Terms, Forcipate, forked like pincers.

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