Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Arachnida.
- noun One of the Arachnida.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Arachnida.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
Arachnida .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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There are arachnidan insects which are said to be capable or spinning a long, slender thread, out upon a current of air, which wafts it upward until it fastens itself to the ceiling of a room or the limb of a tree, thus forming a ladder up which the tiny creatures climbs to its desired position.
Shiloh. A Sermon John Lansing 1893
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