Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large segmented aquatic arthropods of the order Eurypterida that existed from the Ordovician Period to the Permian Period, having a long tail often with a spinelike appendage at the tip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A merostome crustacean of the family Eurypteridæ.
- Having the characters of or pertaining to Eurypterus or the Eurypteridæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large, prehistoric,
carnivorous arthropod , of the orderEurypterida , thought to be one of the firstanimals to venture onto land.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My favorite is his drawing of a eurypterid / sea scorpion.
Luskin, Haeckel, Richardson, Richards - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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This paper, with Hünicken as a coauthor, revises the identity of this fossil as a “bizarre eurypterid”, a water scorpion Eurypterida.
Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006
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What all this summons into my mind, as I continue the path of free association from T.S. Eliot through my eurypterid to Rhyniognatha, is H.P. Lovecraft's splendid novella, "At the Mountains of Madness" (1936), one of his few genuine science-fiction stories, and a dazzling one.
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Gradually the antique types of the Paleozoic fauna died out, and in the Permian rocks are found the last survivors of the cystoid, the trilobite, and the eurypterid, and of many long-lived families of brachiopods, mollusks, and other invertebrates.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The discovery is the largest known walking trackway of a eurypterid or any invertebrate animal.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The discovery is the largest known walking trackway of a eurypterid or any invertebrate animal.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It is the largest known walking trackway of a eurypterid or any invertebrate animal.
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The discovery is the largest known walking trackway of a eurypterid or any invertebrate animal.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It is the largest known walking trackway of a eurypterid or any invertebrate animal.
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The discovery is the largest known walking trackway of a eurypterid or any invertebrate animal.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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