¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arachnids
1. arachnid [n] - See also: arachnid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arachnids
Literary usage of Arachnids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"390. sects, destruction of injurious species, and myriapods and arachnids.
The economic treatment is given with each injurious species. ..."
2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"... and then of arachnids. Unusual attention has recently been paid to these
animals, on account of the discovery of their remains in formations much ..."
3. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1901)
"Large arachnids with a long segmented abdomen ending with a poisonous sting. ...
arachnids with cephalothorax not constricted from abdomen ; pedipalps very ..."
4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"The upper half of a specimen of this genus was obtained dead and sea-worn.
On a new genus of arachnids:, by HHB BRADLEY, ESQ. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"And first, in respect to their external organisation, arachnids are articulate
animals,1 with eight articulated legs, each in general consisting of seven ..."