'Clasper' definitions:
Definition of 'Clasper'
From: GCIDE
- Clasper \Clasp"er\ (kl[.a]sp"[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." --Derham. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (a) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. (b) 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 Chim[ae]ra. [1913 Webster]