clasper
/'klɑ:spә/
BNC频率: 32337
现代语料频率: 46202
中文翻译
n. 扣子, 抱茎卷须, 鳍脚
[医] 抱握器, 交接突起, 鳍脚
英文解释
n. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
n. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the
female among many of the Crustacea.
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 Chimaera.
词态变化
复数形式:claspers
常见例句
1
plural of clasper n
2
A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.