Crossword-Solution: CLASPER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Clasper | n. | One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. |
| Clasper | n. | One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. |
| Clasper | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CLASPER | anagram | CARPELS, PARCELS, PLACERS, RECLASP, SCALPER |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CLASPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Clutching one | 1 answer |
| One with a tight hold | 1 answer |
| Holding device | 5 answers |
| Gripper | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CLASPER (5)
Then there were anticipations of Henley; and criticisms on the new eight out-rigger that Searle was laying down for the University crew; and comparisons between somebody's stroke and somebody else's spurt; and a good deal of reference to Clasper and Coombes, and Newall and Pococke, who might have been heathen deities for all that our hero knew, and from the manner in which they were mentioned.
Rome was not builded in a day, Nor even row-boats (_teste_ CLASPER); No more are voices which will stay, Unlike the organ of the gasper.
Just upon the lower spine-joint, and above the apron, as I call it, there are two other long branches, which, when close, extend upon the back from the point they join at below to the shoulders, where each rib has a clasper, which reaching over the shoulders, just under the fold of the uppermost branch or ribs, hold up the two ribs flat to the back like a V, the interstices of which are also filled up with the aforesaid membrane.
The leaves are winged, with about six pairs of narrow leaflets, and terminate in a divided tendril, or clasper; the flowers are small, numerous, and generally produced in pairs; the pods are somewhat quadrangular, flattened, usually in pairs, and enclose one or two round, lens-like seeds, the size and color varying in the different varieties,--about four hundred and fifty are contained in an ounce, and their power of germination is retained three years.
Annual; stem slender and climbing, about three feet high, the leaves terminating in a branching tendril, or clasper; flowers purplish; pods brown, slender, containing from eight to twelve seeds, or grains, which are globular, sometimes slightly flattened, smooth, and of a yellowish-white color; they retain their germinative quality three years; an ounce contains about six hundred seeds.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1996–1999).