Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Cheliferidea; a false scorpion.
- noun A genus of pseudoscorpions, typical of the family Cheliferidœ, including book-scorpions with two eyes, as C. cancroides, a small species often found in musty old books.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See Book scorpion, under
book .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
book-scorpion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a genus of Chelonethida
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like the chelifer, it shuns the light, hiding in chinks till sunset, but is actively engaged throughout the night feasting on the acari and soft-bodied insects which assail books and papers.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Odontomachus chelifer is the largest of the new world trap-jaw ants. filename: chelifer5
Myrmecos Blog 2009
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Rational Review 2009
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England and elsewhere, and it is almost certain that, like the chelifer, one of the species found on book-shelves in Ceylon, has been brought thither from Europe.]
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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