Word of the Day – Arachnid

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!”