Usually means: Pincers on limbs of crustaceans.
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  1. chelae: Merriam-Webster
  2. chelae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chelae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chelae: Vocabulary.com
  5. chelae: Wordnik
  6. chelae: Wiktionary
  7. Chelae, chelae: Dictionary.com
  8. Chelae (Bosphorus), Chelae: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Chelae: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Chelae: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. chelae: FreeDictionary.org
  12. chelae: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chelae: Encyclopedia

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  1. chelae: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Chelae)

noun:  A chelaalso called a claw, nipper, or pinceris a pincer-shaped organ at the end of certain limbs of some arthropods.
noun:  Chelae or Chelai was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Pontus Euxinus.
noun:  Chelae or Chelai was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Bosphorus.
noun:  Chelae or Chelai, also called Philemporos, was a town of ancient Thrace on the Bosphorus, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.
noun:  the plural of Chela (organ).


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