Spinnentier

Definitions of Spinnentier
  1. noun
    air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
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    Weberknecht
    spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs
    Skorpion
    arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger
    Afterskorpion
    nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger
    Spinne, Webspinne
    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
    Kreuzspinne
    a spider common in European gardens
    Kugelspinne
    spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot
    Tarantel
    large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites
    Wolfsspinne
    ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web
    Zecke
    any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
    Milbe
    any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
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    Gliederfüßler
    invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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