arachnide

Definitions of arachnide
  1. noun
    air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
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    scorpion
    arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger
    araignée
    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
    araignée des jardins
    a spider common in European gardens
    veuve noire
    venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen
    lycose
    ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web
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    arthropode
    invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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