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Definition of Opiliones
1. Noun. Harvestmen.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Arachnida, Class Arachnida
Member holonyms: Family Phalangiidae, Phalangiidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opiliones
Literary usage of Opiliones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"Attempts have been made to connect the Pseudoscorpiones with other divisions of
the Arachnida, especially with the opiliones, but these have not l>wn ..."
2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"On some new harvest spiders of the order opiliones from the Southern Continents.
... Pocock, RI On some new harvest- spiders of the order opiliones from the ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"ORDER opiliones Head completely fused with thorax. Abdomen -broadly joined with
cephalothorax, composed of ten segments; the anal operculum placed ventrally ..."
4. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"The author proposes for the species the name of G. vorax, it is, however, very
possible that it does not differ from the G.fatalis of Herbst. opiliones. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The opiliones seem to lead on from the Spiders to the Mites. Reference to
literature (39). ... Apparently related to the opiliones are two extinct groups, ..."
6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"This view of the matter was briefly alluded to in my paper upon the classification
of the opiliones,' and coincides with the explanation of the morphology ..."
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