Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the
stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. 2. (Zoöl.) (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 shar...
