Definitions for clasper

clasper clasp·er

Spelling: [klas-per, klah-sper]
IPA: /ˈklæs pər, ˈklɑ spər/

Clasper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 328 anagrams from letters in clasper (acelprs).

Definitions for clasper

noun

  1. a person or thing that clasps.
  2. (in insects, fishes, crustaceans, etc.) one of the modified, usually paired organs or parts by which the male clasps the female during copulation.

Origin of clasper

First recorded in 1545-55; clasp + -er1

Examples for clasper

The dominie was aboard the Falcon just before the clasper came in yestreen, and I saw him again after ye were brought here.

Wright had the better of the start, but in ten strokes clasper led by a quarter of a length.

In the males a cartilaginous generative organ, known as the clasper, is attached to the pelvis and the ventral fins.

clasper made a desperate spurt, and got nearly abreast of his antagonist, who won by a length, in 23½ minutes.

The males in Elasmobranchii and Holocephali have the distal end of the meta-pterygium prolonged into a clasper.

We were at once hauled round, and a boat from the clasper came alongside.

The specimens are smaller in size, the rostrum is longer and the clasper of the male is more pointed.

Sometimes the pair of appendages has not a merely tactile jointed ramus, but is converted into a claw or clasper.

Oh, it's a specially fast kind of racing-boat, built by Clinker and clasper.

Word Value for clasper
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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