noun
a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
• Syn: ↑class Arachnida
• Derivationally related forms: ↑arachnidian
• Hypernyms: ↑class
• Member Holonyms: ↑Chelicerata, ↑superclass Chelicerata
• Member Meronyms:
↑arachnid, ↑arachnoid, ↑Phalangida, ↑order Phalangida, ↑Opiliones, ↑order Opiliones, ↑Scorpionida, ↑order Scorpionida, ↑Chelonethida, ↑order Chelonethida, ↑Pseudoscorpionida, ↑order Pseudoscorpionida, ↑Pseudoscorpiones, ↑order Pseudoscorpiones, ↑Pedipalpi, ↑order Pedipalpi, ↑Uropygi, ↑order Uropygi, ↑Araneae, ↑order Araneae, ↑Araneida, ↑order Araneida, ↑Acarina, ↑order Acarina
Useful english dictionary. 2012.