Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various arthropods of the class Arachnida, such as spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks, characterized by four pairs of segmented legs and a body that is divided into two regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Arachnida; an arachnidan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An arachnidan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the eight-legged creatures, including
spiders andscorpions , of the classArachnida
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Venom as big slobbering fanged crazyman, with a bit of a thing for wanting to indulge in arachnid appetisers is what you find here.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Venom Factor - Diane Duane Blue Tyson 2006
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This house has at least two long-term arachnid tenants.
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His case is just one of a dozen this year in which Japanese have been nipped by this Australian arachnid, which is spinning its silk web from Nagoya to Fukuoka, to Osaka.
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His case is just one of a dozen this year in which Japanese have been nipped by this Australian arachnid, which is spinning its silk web from Nagoya to Fukuoka, to Osaka.
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Mama, of course, was way sicker than either Mason or I, so she stayed home, which was probably for the best if only because Mason got to not only hold a Madagascar hissing cockroach (who LOVED the warm, moistness of his palm and nearly settled in for the evening,) but also a whip scorpion (which isn't really a scorpion at all, but a kind of arachnid related to the daddy-longlegs called a "harvestmen."
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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"Buggy" is the collective noun for clowns, so it makes perfect sense that Cirque du Soleil's arachnid extravaganza, "Ovo," at the Santa Monica Pier, is peopled insected? with a dazzling array of bugs.
James Scarborough: "Ovo," Cirque du Soleil, Santa Monica Pier James Scarborough 2012
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Last Saturday I saw this arachnid on a tree in the park near my house.
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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In Sam Raimi's three Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire, the film franchise decided to tinker with comic-book history and grant Peter Parker the biological powers to spin string -- as a result of that irradiated arachnid bite.
STAN LEE reacts to big-screen Spider-Man's new look Michael Cavna 2011
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The fine-lined 11x14 image features farmgirl Fern Arable clutching Wilbur the saved-from-slaughter pig, as the literate arachnid Charlotte spins her magic above the livestock.
'CHARLOTTE'S WEB' cover art snares $155K at auction Michael Cavna 2010
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"Buggy" is the collective noun for clowns, so it makes perfect sense that Cirque du Soleil's arachnid extravaganza, "Ovo," at the Santa Monica Pier, is peopled insected? with a dazzling array of bugs.
James Scarborough: "Ovo," Cirque du Soleil, Santa Monica Pier James Scarborough 2012
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