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What is a clasper?

What is a clasper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything that clasps
  2. (biology) Any of several appendages, in insects, crustacea and fish, that are used to clasp the female during copulation
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The specimens are smaller in size, the rostrum is longer and the clasper of the male is more pointed.
We were at once hauled round, and a boat from the clasper came alongside.
The dominie was aboard the Falcon just before the clasper came in yestreen, and I saw him again after ye were brought here.
The males in Elasmobranchii and Holocephali have the distal end of the meta-pterygium prolonged into a clasper.
The male inserts one clasper into the female cloaca during copulation.
Sometimes the pair of appendages has not a merely tactile jointed ramus, but is converted into a claw or clasper.

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