arachnid
English Thesaurus
1. air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | arthropod, |
| definition | : | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | scorpion, |
| definition | : | arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | whip scorpion, whip-scorpion, |
| definition | : | nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | spider, |
| definition | : | predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | acarine, |
| definition | : | mite or tick (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | arachnida, class arachnida, |
| definition | : | a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings (noun.animal) |
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