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Clasper
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.
2. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
3. 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.