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PREHENSOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prehensor mean?
• PREHENSOR (noun)
The noun PREHENSOR has 1 sense:
1. the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths
Familiarity information: PREHENSOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("prehensor" is a kind of...):
leg (a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion)
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