NOUN
- a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
How To Use Arachnida In A Sentence
- Ticks belong to the class Arachnida, which counts mites, spiders and scorpions among its members.
- While the true scorpions have been classified in the Arachnida along with the scorpions, spiders, mites, etc, these being primarily terrestrial.
- The less highly organised terrestrial arthropoda -- the Arachnida and Darwinism (1889)
- There are arachnidan insects which are said to be capable or spinning a long, slender thread, out upon a current of air, which wafts it upward until it fastens itself to the ceiling of a room or the limb of a tree, thus forming a ladder up which the tiny creatures climbs to its desired position. Shiloh. A Sermon
