arachnid

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A map of the routes with arrows arching across the country gave the operation its arachnid moniker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

The team that found the tiny orange-legged arachnid has informally named it the white-knuckled wolf spider.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

Still, Waterhouse couldn’t shake her fascination with the sparklemuffin chic arachnid.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

The early worm gets the arachnid, fossil research by an Oregon State University scientist has shown.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Just because you’ve called something a spider once doesn’t mean that the next time you have to call it an arachnid or a predaceous eight-legged creepy-crawly.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner