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PHALANGIDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Phalangida mean?
• PHALANGIDA (noun)
The noun PHALANGIDA has 1 sense:
1. harvestmen
Familiarity information: PHALANGIDA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harvestmen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Opiliones; order Opiliones; order Phalangida; Phalangida
Hypernyms ("Phalangida" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Phalangida"):
family Phalangiidae; Phalangiidae (a family of Phalangida)
Holonyms ("Phalangida" is a member of...):
Arachnida; class Arachnida (a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings)
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