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Definition of Sea spider
1. Noun. Any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod
Group relationships: Order Pycnogonida, Pycnogonida
Definition of Sea spider
1. Noun. Any arthropod in the taxonomic class ''Pycnogonida''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sea spider
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Spider
Literary usage of Sea spider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"... and PIPE FISH, XIII. 537, 1 a. Seasoning, of wood, XVI. 704, 1 a. SEASONS, XIV.
741 (ill., 742). Astronomical length of, XVI. 775, 1 c. sea spider ..."
2. Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence by Carl Semper (1881)
"Part of the stem (t) of a hydroid Polyp, Campanularia, with closed pear-shaped
galls (6) within which lives the larva (a) of a sea-spider, ..."
3. The Sea and Its Living Wonders by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"Many marine productions, both of a vegetable and animal nature, have their birth
and grow to beauty on the shell of the sea-spider. Corallines, sponges ..."
4. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"48 of the present Book, charges the sea-spider with doing much mischief, by means
of the spines or stickles on its back. ..."
5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1829)
"The sea spider alluded to in p. 211., and which, by being exhibited under the
title of a tarantula sea spider, has no doubt extracted some money from the ..."
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