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nouna hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
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nouna grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropodspart of:
Definition that contains pincer
- crab decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- shrimp small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- prawn shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- forceps an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)
- crayfish large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- crawfish large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- earwig any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
- true lobster large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs
- rock lobster large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- sea crawfish large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters