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Arachnid

//əˈɹæknɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.
  2. 2
    air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs wordnet

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) with the suffix -id. By surface analysis, arachn- + -id.

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