What is "claspers"

Usage examples of "claspers".

He could see several features that suggested a possible provenance for the insect-folk: the domelike eyes, the long segmented body with the claspers at the end, the six wiry legs all grouped together just behind the head.

The rest of the insect-person extruded itself, hung rigidly horizontal from the lip of the tube by the claspers at the tip of its elongated abdomen, and let itself drop lightly on all fours to the ground.

There was another head-to-head conference, with eight long tail sections sticking out and wobbling, the gauntleted claspers working convulsively.

The four-fingered claspers at their projecting rears were pincers of horn, and the forward manipulating limbs, now revealed, were all tweezers and hooks.

The glass helmet smashed against the corner of a crate, and the claspers relaxed just on the point of crushing his gloved hand between them.

But other nymphs were managing to land right side up or to grab branchlets with their four legs and abdominal claspers and swing themselves around.

He let his fingertips caress the flesh -- past the pectoral fins, the pelvic fin, the thick, firm genital claspers -- until finally (the fish seemed to have no end) they were slapped away by the sweeping tail.

He let his fingertips caress the flesh -- past the pectoral fins, the pelvic fin, the thick, firm genital claspers --until finally (the fish seemed to have no end) they were slapped away by the sweeping tail.

Angling down from its serrated spine, a ferocious array of claspers, pincers, slabbers, clubs, and saws of chitin plate festooned its sides.

And without pause Canker's warrior grasped the lesser creature in its left-flank claspers and commenced to dismember it.

And while she reeled there and tried to recover her senses and balance both, it put out appendages with hooked claspers and snatched her up.

Shuck the fake shell and let's see whatcha got in the claspers department.