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Webster 1913 Edition

(klȧsp′ẽr)

Noun.

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.

“The claspers of vines.”

Derham.

(Zool.)

(a)

One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

(b)

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of

Noun.

He or that which clasps; usually the tendril of a vine or other plant, which twines round something for support.

clasper ‎(plural claspers)

Anything that clasps
(biology) Any of several appendages, in insects, crustacea and fish, that are used to clasp the female during copulation