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<zoology> The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.
They have mandibles, modified a poison fags, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web. They breathe by pulmonary sacs and tracheae in the abdomen.
Origin: NL, fr. L. Aranea spider.
(01 Mar 1998)
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