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Definition of Pseudoscorpiones
1. Noun. False scorpions.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Arachnida, Class Arachnida
Member holonyms: False Scorpion, Pseudoscorpion, Chelifer, Genus Chelifer
Definition of Pseudoscorpiones
1. n. pl. An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pseudoscorpiones
Literary usage of Pseudoscorpiones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"ORDER V. pseudoscorpiones. Cephalothorax conjoined with abdomen. ... pseudoscorpiones.
(Characters of the order those of the single family). ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The little that is as yet known of the ontogeny of the pseudoscorpiones does not
seem sufficiently well established to enable us to form a decisive judgment ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Reference to literature (36). Order 6. pseudoscorpiones ... Appendages of tbe
ist of the pseudoscorpiones. ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"... or the pseudoscorpiones. A subsequent study of the Opiliones, however, has
suggested an alternative interpretation of these plates which divorces ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (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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