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Clasper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

He or that which clasps; usually the tendril of a vine or other plant, which twines round something for support.

Clasper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.

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 Chimaera.

Claspered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnished with tendrils.

Claspered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished with tendrils.