CLASPER

Etymology

Noun

clasper (plural claspers)

Anything that clasps.

(zoology) Any of several appendages, in insects, crustacea and fish, that are used to clasp the female during copulation.

(botany) The tendril of a plant.

Anagrams

• carpels, craples, parcels, placers, reclasp, scalper

Source: Wiktionary

Clasp"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

2. (Zoöl.) (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 Chimæra.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition