Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various arthropods of the class Arachnida, such as spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks, characterized by four pairs of segmented legs and a body that is divided into two regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Arachnida; an arachnidan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An arachnidan.
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- noun Any of the eight-legged creatures, including
spiders andscorpions , of the classArachnida
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Arachnida, class name, from Greek arakhnē, spider.]
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French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη ("spider").
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