Arachnid synonyms

ə-răk'nĭd

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spider
(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
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bird-eating (related)
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tarantula
A large wolf spider (Lycosa tarentula) of southern Europe, once thought to cause tarantism.
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tick
The definition of a tick is a recurring noise.
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harvestman (related)
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millipedes (related)
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centipede (related)
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mite
Any of numerous small or minute arachnids of the order Acarina, including species that damage crops or stored food and species that are parasitic on animals and often transmit disease.
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scorpion
Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end.
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arachnoid
An arachnid.
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blood-sucking (related)
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ichneumon (related)
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arthropod (related)
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Find another word for arachnid. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for arachnid, like: spider, , tarantula, tick, harvestman, millipedes, centipede, mite, scorpion, arachnoid and null.
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Arachnid Sentence Examples

  • In recent times the term tarantula has been applied indiscriminately to many different kinds of large spiders in no way related to Lycosa tarantula; and to at least one Arachnid belonging to a distinct order.

  • In Queensland one of the largest local spiders, known as Holconia immanis, a member of the family Clubionidae, bears the name tarantula; and in Egypt it was a common practice of the British soldiers to put together scorpions and tarantulas, the latter in this instance being specimens of the large and formidable desert-haunting Arachnid, Galeodes lucasii, a member of the order Solifugae.

  • The bi-ramose structure of the post-oral limbs, demonstrated by Beecher in the trilobite Triarthrus, is no more inconsistent with its claim to be a primitive Arachnid than is the foliaceous modification of the limbs in Phyllopods inconsistent with their relationship to the Arthrostracous Crustaceans such as Gammarus and Oniscus.

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