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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arachnid /əˈraknɪd/

▶noun Zoology an arthropod of the class Arachnida, which includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks.

– origin from mod. L. Arachnida, from Gk arakhnē ‘spider’.

'arachnid' also found in these Oxford entries:

acarine - arachnoid - book lung - false scorpion - harvestman - -id - mite - opisthosoma - scorpion - spider - sun spider - tick - whip scorpion

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