Arachnic (noun)
ar-ak-nid
any wingless, carnivorous arthropod of the class Arachnida, including spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, and daddy-longlegs, having a body divided into two parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen, and having eight appendages and no antennae.
1865–70; New Latin Arachnida, Greek aráchn(ē) spider, spider’s web + New Latin -ida-ida
Example sentences
“I wasn’t keen on spiders, or any arachnids in fact!”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
