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Arachnid Large class of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. Arachnids have a segmented body divided into two parts, one of which has four pairs of legs but no antennae. Mentioned in: Bites and Stings arachnid Etymology: Gk, arachne, spider a member of the phylum Arthropoda, class Arachnida, which includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. arachnid a member of the class Arachnida of animals. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For her, that meant interning at American Museum of Natural History, where her job is to measure the arachnids. A highly trained dispatcher fielded the call and determined the assailant was an arachnid. Beckstrom, have written a just-released book titled The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (Portfolio), in which they hold forth on not only the model of the Apache tribes ("The Apaches persevered because they were decentralized") to, yes, echinoderms and arachnids. |
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