Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One versed in arachnology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is engaged in
arachnology , the study ofspiders .
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Examples
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Now, you can also paint outside the lines with Miss Muffet as she stands up to that spider and considers a career as an arachnologist!
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According to the Yale Peabody Museum, he "was the top arachnologist of his time, studying all aspects of spider biology, taxonomy and paleontology."
Spiders and Wasps Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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After enough legwork to aggravate Philip Marlowe, I finally make contact with Alex Kerr, the undergraduate arachnologist mentioned by Nafus and Schreiner.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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After enough legwork to aggravate Philip Marlowe, I finally make contact with Alex Kerr, the undergraduate arachnologist mentioned by Nafus and Schreiner.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He calls himself Mr. Pudd, and I think that strictly speaking he may be an arachnologist, not a herpetologist.
The Killing Kind John Connolly 2002
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The mini-munchkins including flirty entomologist Erika Moll, saintly toxicologist Peter Jansen and gutsy arachnologist Karen King for whom Hutter has the hots have to fight their way through the rainforest in a remote part of Hawaii.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mark Sanderson 2011
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Wearing a faded orange bandanna around his head and carrying a clear bag of plastic vials, nationally known arachnologist Rick Vetter is unfazed.
News - latimes.com 2011
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Ray Hale, an arachnologist with Sussex Wildlife Trust, said: "If we have a good spring and summer, there could be a lot of spiders about as the young spiders emerging just now will have plenty of food to see them through the winter."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), says it wasn't him who made it happen, it was her German arachnologist boyfriend - you don't often hear those three words together, do you?
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D.C. and married to a nice though naive German arachnologist (August Diehl) -- yes, he studies spiders and, yes, there is a payoff to that -- she is assigned to CIA desk duties when a supposed Russian defector (Daniel Olbrychski) walks in one day.
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