clasper noun. ['klɑ:spǝ] M16.
[from CLASP verb + -ER¹.]
1. A person who or thing which clasps; a means of holding fast. M16.

2. Botany. A tendril. L16.

3. Zoology. Either of a pair of appendages of the male used to hold the female in copulation, esp. in certain fishes and insects. Usu. in pl. M19.

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