Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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. Also called arachnoid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Arachnida; an arachnidan.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An arachnidan.
WordNet 3.0
- n. air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
Etymologies
- From New Latin Arachnida, class name, from Greek arakhnē, spider.
Examples
“Venom as big slobbering fanged crazyman, with a bit of a thing for wanting to indulge in arachnid appetisers is what you find here.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Venom Factor - Diane Duane
“This house has at least two long-term arachnid tenants.”
“His case is just one of a dozen this year in which Japanese have been nipped by this Australian arachnid, which is spinning its silk web from Nagoya to Fukuoka, to Osaka.”
“Mama, of course, was way sicker than either Mason or I, so she stayed home, which was probably for the best if only because Mason got to not only hold a Madagascar hissing cockroach (who LOVED the warm, moistness of his palm and nearly settled in for the evening,) but also a whip scorpion (which isn't really a scorpion at all, but a kind of arachnid related to the daddy-longlegs called a "harvestmen.”
“The fine-lined 11x14 image features farmgirl Fern Arable clutching Wilbur the saved-from-slaughter pig, as the literate arachnid Charlotte spins her magic above the livestock.”
The Washington Post: 'CHARLOTTE'S WEB' cover art snares $155K at auction
“Buggy" is the collective noun for clowns, so it makes perfect sense that Cirque du Soleil's arachnid extravaganza, "Ovo," at the Santa Monica Pier, is peopled insected? with a dazzling array of bugs.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: "Ovo," Cirque du Soleil, Santa Monica Pier
“Last Saturday I saw this arachnid on a tree in the park near my house.”
“In Sam Raimi's three Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire, the film franchise decided to tinker with comic-book history and grant Peter Parker the biological powers to spin string -- as a result of that irradiated arachnid bite.”
The Washington Post: STAN LEE reacts to big-screen Spider-Man's new look
“In each of the locations the arachnid architecture is much the same: a female spider winches together two or more stems of the hollow stalks and then wraps around the point where they touch a protected couch of white silk.”
“Fried scorpions on a miniature mountain of glass noodles in Beijing, artfully arranged to simulate fearsome arachnid battle.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘arachnid’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 322 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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arachn-, arachno-
spider; cobweb
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