Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of the Pycnogonida.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Pycnogonida.
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- noun zoology Any
sea spider of the classPycnogonida
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The middle one is essentially a colorized version of the pycnogonid (sea spider) and Pompeii worm artwork I did in black and white for Chris Garcia's fanzine The Drink Tank a month or two ago.
Not to be flippant... frankwu 2007
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A while back, I reported on a study of pycnogonids, the sea spiders, that appeared to show that that might not be the case: on the basis of neural organization and innervation, that study showed that the way pycnogonid chelifores a pair of large, fang-like structures at the front of the head were innervated suggested that they were homologous to great appendages.
Chelifores, chelicerae, and invertebrate evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A while back, I reported on a study of pycnogonids, the sea spiders, that appeared to show that that might not be the case: on the basis of neural organization and innervation, that study showed that the way pycnogonid chelifores a pair of large, fang-like structures at the front of the head were innervated suggested that they were homologous to great appendages.
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Sea Spider (_pycnogonid_) from the Sea east of Cape Chelyuskin, drawn by ditto
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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A deep-sea pycnogonid, or sea spider, holds two detached tentacles of a sea anemone in its mouth amid the mollusk shells and whale bones that have settled on the sea floor.
ScienceNOW Janelle Weaver 2009
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