noun. A pincerlike claw of a crustacean or arachnid, such as a lobster, crab, or scorpion.

noun. See cheela.

noun. In sponge-spicules, a microsclere consisting of a more or loss curved shaft bearing at each end a variable number of recurved processes.

noun. The pair of pincers or nippers, or the so-called claw, which terminates some of the limbs of most Crustacea, as crabs and lobsters, formed by an enlarged propodite bearing a movably apposed dactylopodite; the last and penultimate segments of a chelate limb or cheliped so modified as to constitute a prehensile organ like a pair of pincers.

noun. The similar nipper- or pincer-like claw terminating the chelicera of an arachnidan, as a scorpion. In these two senses also chele.

noun. A genus of cyprinoid fishes.

noun. The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

noun. In India, a dependent person occupying a position between that of a servant or slave and a disciple; hence, a disciple or novice.

noun. A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid.

noun. A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism.

noun. a Hindu disciple of a swami

noun. a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

"The term chela, commonly used for a Hindu disciple who leaves household life to live and study with"

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