cheliferous

1. 1.

   having chelae

Questions about cheliferous

What does cheliferous mean?

cheliferous means "having chelae".

How many syllables are in cheliferous?

cheliferous has 4 syllables: che-li-fe-rous. The stress falls on "li".

Is cheliferous a common word?

cheliferous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.