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  • noun The posterior abdomen of the chelicerates, a phylum including horseshoe crabs, spiders, mites, and ticks.

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Examples

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe underwater by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Fine setae covers the opisthosoma which is used as an aquatic lung that allows the spider to breathe under water by the setae trapping an air bubble against the spider's body and connected to the tracheal spiracles.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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