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Definition of False scorpion
1. Noun. Small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion.
Generic synonyms: Arachnid, Arachnoid
Group relationships: Chelonethida, Order Chelonethida, Order Pseudoscorpiones, Order Pseudoscorpionida, Pseudoscorpiones, Pseudoscorpionida
Specialized synonyms: Book Scorpion, Chelifer Cancroides
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Scorpion
Literary usage of False scorpion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"The suggestion has been made that the false scorpion seizes the legs of the flies
without realizing their size, and that they remain attached until the fly ..."
2. Life Histories of Animals, Including Man: Or, Outlines of Comparative Embryology by Alpheus Spring Packard (1876)
"The false-scorpion differs in its mode of growth much more from the spiders, the
scorpion and other Pedipalps, than the harvest-man (Phalangium), ..."
3. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... Beau- like those of the scorpion; these are False-scorpions or Pseudo-scorpions.
FIG. 469. False-scorpion ..."
4. Life Histories of Animals, Including Man: Or, Outlines of Comparative Embryology by Alpheus Spring Packard (1876)
"The false-scorpion differs in its mode of growth much more from the spiders, the
scorpion and other Pedipalps, than the harvest-man (Phalangium), ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"(E. Сл.) K-SCORPION, or false scorpion, minute arachnids Uy resembling tailless
scorpions and belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones of the class Arachnida ..."
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