| NOUN | animal | arachnid, arachnoid | air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs |
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| Sounds | erae'knahd; erae'knihd | |
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| Rhymes | abbreviated ... wounded: 365 rhymes with ahd... | |
| abbreviated ... wrongheaded: 610 rhymes with ihd... | ||
| Meaning | air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs. | |
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| Synonym | arachnoid | |
| Member of | Arachnida, class Arachnida | A large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs |
| Narrower | acarine | mite or tick |
| false scorpion, pseudoscorpion | small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion | |
| harvestman, daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio | spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | |
| scorpion | arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger | |
| spider | predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body | |
| whip-scorpion, whip scorpion | nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger | |
| Broader | arthropod | invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
| Spanish | arácnido, arácnidos | |
| Catalan | aràcnid | |
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