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J Arachnids
Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mite-like. | acarian acaroid |
| any member of the class Acarida, mites and ticks. | acarid acaridan acaridean acaridian |
| see ACARIAN. | acaroid |
| a mite. Pl. ACARI. | acarus |
| any member of the Arachnida, the large class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, etc. | arachnid arachnidan |
| a spider. | araneid |
| related to spiders. | araneidan+ |
| a spider. | attercop ethercap ettercap |
| (S. Afr.) a large black spider; also a baboon. | bobbejaan+ |
| a very small arachnid that breeds in cheese. | cheesemite |
| moving quickly, applied specifically to the Lycosidae or wolf-spiders that run down their prey. | citigrade |
| a genus of spiders, including the common garden spider. | epeira |
| a member of the family Epeiridae, that includes garden spiders. | epeirid |
| any of a large family of minute plant-feeding MITES. | eriophyid |
| see ATTERCOP. | ethercap |
| see ATTERCOP. | ettercap |
| any member of the Opiliones, a class of Arachnida with very long legs. | harvester harvestman |
| a TICK from the family Ixodidae. [Gk. ixodes, sticky, from ixos, birdlime]. | ixodid |
| a venomous black New Zealand spider with a red spot on its back. Pl. KATIPOS. | katipo |
| any of various tiny arachnids of the order Acarida, many of which carry disease, smaller than ticks and, unlike them, are not always parasitic in habits. | mite |
| infested with mites: MITIER, MITIEST. | mity |
| an American bird-catching spider. [Gk. mygale a field-mouse, a shrew, from mys, mouse, and galee, weasel]. | mygale |
| any of a family of eyeless mites. | oribatid |
| one of the Phalangoidea, a long-legged arachnid, a harvest-spider. | phalangid |
| any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpiones, resembling a scorpion but tailless, and found in soil, leaf litter, bark, etc. | pseudoscorpion |
| a kind of jumping spider. | saltigrade |
| relating to a genus of small MITES. | sarcoptic |
| a scorpion; a scorpion-like animal. | scorpioid |
| any arachnid of the genus Scorpio or order Scorpionida with head and thorax united, pincers, four pairs of legs, and a segmented abdomen including a tail with a venomous sting. | scorpion |
| a type of venomous arachnid. | solpugid |
| an arachnid of the order Araneae. | spider |
| like a spider. | spiderish spiderlike |
| abounding in spiders; (of writing) thin and straggly. | spidery |
| a venomous South African tick. | tampan |
| any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous. Pl. TARANTULAE or TARANTULAS. | tarantula |
| any of the larger bloodsucking MITES of the Acarina order. | tick |
| of or relating to any of the MITE family (Trombiculidae). | trombiculid |
| a mite of the genus Tyroglyphus, including the CHEESEMITE and the flour-mite. [Gr. tyros, cheese, + glyphein, to carve]. | tyroglyphid |
| an Asiatic MITE which paralyses and kills the honey-bee. [From Varro, a Latin writer on bees]. | varroa |
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