arachnid
蛛丝马迹,蜘蛛人,蜘蛛类,蛛形纲目
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- : any wingless, carnivorous arthropod of the class Arachnida, including spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, and daddy-longlegs, having a body divided into two parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen, and having eight appendages and no antennae.Compare insect.
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- : belonging or pertaining to the arachnids.
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If experiences shape the brain’scircuitry then I learned to fear the fatherbefore the arachnid.
Almost all middens contain insects, arachnids, and other creepy crawlies unlucky enough to become trapped in the amberat.
On the other hand, some arachnids lose the upper hand — or leg — in a contest with snakes.
Fortunately, avoiding these little arachnids isn’t hard to do.
Several new vaccines for Lyme disease are on the horizon, and in exciting but early work, researchers are even trying to develop vaccines that target ticks themselves, potentially protecting against a wide range of illnesses the tiny arachnids carry.
The scorpion, a Heterometrus spinifer, is completely edible, despite the arachnid being deadly if alive.
The arachnid are followed by the myriapoda (centipedes, etc.), and these by the insecti or true insects.
His comparison of the Arachnid appendages with those of insects and Crustacea is very curious.
Patten considers the Pteraspids as derived from primitive arachnid or spider-like forms having a bony carapace as Limulus has.
The characteristics of the median eyes must then be especially sought for in the arachnid group.
He simply, therefore, substituted Arachnid for Annelid in the old theory.