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Claw. A domestic cat 's retractable claw in protracted position. A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Some invertebrates such as beetles and spiders have somewhat similar fine, hooked structures at the end of the leg or tarsus for gripping a surface as they walk.
A chela (/ ˈ k iː l ə /) – also called a claw, nipper, or pincer – is a pincer-shaped organ at the end of certain limbs of some arthropods. [1] The name comes from Ancient Greek χηλή, through Neo-Latin chela. The plural form is chelae. [2] Legs bearing a chela are called chelipeds. [3]
The claws are typically curved and the radius of curvature tends to be greater as the bird is larger although they tend to be straighter in large ground dwelling birds such as ratites. [22] Some species (including nightjars , herons , frigatebirds , owls and pratincoles ) have comb-like serrations on the claw of the middle toe that may aid in ...
A dewclaw is a digit – vestigial in some animals – on the foot of many mammals, birds, and reptiles (including some extinct orders, like certain theropods). It commonly grows higher on the leg than the rest of the foot, such that in digitigrade or unguligrade species, it does not make contact with the ground when the animal is standing.
A bear claw is a sweet, yeast -raised pastry, a type of Danish, originating in the United States during the mid-1910s. [1][2][3][4] In Denmark, a bear claw is referred to as a kam. [5] France also has an alternate version of that pastry: patte d'ours (meaning bear paw), created in 1982 in the Alps. The name bear claw as used for a pastry is ...
A claw machine in Ustroń, Poland. A claw machine is a type of arcade game.Modern claw machines are upright cabinets with glass boxes that are lit from the inside and have a joystick-controlled claw at the top, which is coin-operated and positioned over a pile of prizes, dropped into the pile, and picked up to unload the prize or lack thereof into a chute.
Hoof. The feet of the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) have cloven hooves with prominent dewclaws. The hoof (pl.: hooves) is the tip of a toe of an ungulate mammal, which is covered and strengthened with a thick and horny keratin covering. [1] Artiodactyls are even-toed ungulates, species whose feet have an even number of digits; the ruminants ...
External anatomy. The underside and head of a female spider. Spiders, unlike insects, have only two main body parts (tagmata) instead of three: a fused head and thorax (called a cephalothorax or prosoma) and an abdomen (also called an opisthosoma). The exception to this rule are the assassin spiders in the family Archaeidae, whose cephalothorax ...