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che·lic·er·ate

(kə-lĭs′ər-āt′, -ĭt)

Any of various arthropods of the subphylum Chelicerata, having mouthparts with chelicerae, a body composed of two main parts, and no antennae, and including the arachnids and the horseshoe crabs.

[From New Latin Chēlicerāta, subphylum name, from chēlicera, chelicera; see chelicera.]

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chelicerate

(kɪˈlɪsəˌreɪt)

adj

(Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Chelicerata, a subphylum of arthropods, including arachnids and the horseshoe crab, in which the first pair of limbs are modified as chelicerae

(Animals) any arthropod belonging to the Chelicerata

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chelicerate - of or relating to or resembling chelicerae

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chelicerato

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Mesostigmata mites of Britiain and Ireland (Chelicerate: Acari-Parasitiformes).

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Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct chelicerate orders.

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Phylum 5 Chelicerata (Chelicerates, Chelicerate Arthropods, Horseshoe Crabs, Arachnids, and Sea Spiders)

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This is actually similar to the proposed clock mechanism in some non-drosopholid insects, such as butterflies (Zhu et ai, 2008), and the chelicerate Limulus (horseshoe crab) (Chesmore et ai, 2016).

Sequences of Circadian Clock Proteins in the Nudibranch Molluscs Hermissenda crassicornis, Melibe leonina, and Tritonia diomedea

(https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7) The open-access paper was titled "Mandibulate convergence in an armored Cambrian stem chelicerate."

Small Extinct Creature Had 'Jackknife' Head

The scorpion body plan is strikingly similar to that of the extinct eurypterids (Chelicerata: Eurypterida), and on this basis, scorpions can be considered reasonable taphonomic analogues for their extinct chelicerate cousins.

Scorpion taphonomy: criteria for distinguishing fossil scorpion molts and carcasses

Arthropod phylogeny: onychophoran brain organization suggests an archaic relationship with a chelicerate stem lineage.

Taxonomia de onicoforos de Santander, Colombia y termogravimetria, calorimetria de barrido diferencial y espectroscopia infrarroja de la secrecion adhesiva (Onychophora: Peripatidae)

Limulus is a xiphosuran chelicerate, the sister group to arachnids.

Opsins and Their Expression Patterns in the Xiphosuran Limulus polyphemus

They compared this to the nervous systems of horseshoe crabs and scorpions and found without doubt that the creature belonged to the chelicerate family.