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||Chel`i*do"ni*us (?), n. [L. (sc.
lapillus.)] A small stone taken from the gizzard of a
young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

Chel"i*fer (?), n. [Gr.
chhlh` claw + -fer.] (Zoöl.)
See Book scorpion, under Book.

Che*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Gr.
chhlh` claw + -ferous.] (Zoöl.)
Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

Chel"i*form (?), a. [Gr.
chhlh` claw + -form.] (Zoöl.)
Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding
joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used
for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

||Che*lo"ne (?), n. [Gr.
chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper
lip of the corolla.] (Bot.) A genus of hardy
perennial flowering plants, of the order
Scrophulariaceæ, natives of North America; -- called
also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower,
etc.

||Che*lo"ni*a (k&esl;*lō"n&ibreve;*&adot;),
n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. chelw`nh a
tortoise.


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