Possessing small pincers or pincer-like structures; equipped with forcipules or small grasping appendages.
From Latin forcipula (small pincers, diminutive of forcipes) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Common in zoological description of organisms with tiny pincer-like structures.
Sea urchins and starfish are covered in thousands of forcipulate pedicellariae that act like tiny cleaning crews—each one a miniature pincer working 24/7 to keep the animal healthy.
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