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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of marine arthropod articulate animals, combining some characters of both Crustacea and Arachnida with others of neither of these classes; the sea-spiders.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.

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  • noun sea spiders

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