Pycnogonida

Pycnogonida
noun
sea spiders
Syn: ↑order Pycnogonida
Hypernyms: ↑animal order
Member Holonyms: ↑Chelicerata, ↑superclass Chelicerata
Member Meronyms: ↑sea spider, ↑pycnogonid

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\\ˌpiknəˈgänədə\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Pycnogonum, genus of sea spiders (from pycn- + Greek gony knee) + -ida — more at knee
: a class of marine arthropods that superficially resemble spiders with the body relatively very thin and small, the legs usually excessively long and slender, and the abdomen rudimentary, that have typically seven pairs of appendages of which the posterior four pairs are legs and contain diverticula of the intestine and reproductive organs and of which the first two or three pairs are often absent, a triangular mouth at the end of a tubular proboscis, no organs of respiration, and separate sexes, and that produce young which usually pass through a metamorphosis

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