Arachnida (Noun)
Meaning
A large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The arachnida order is the only one in arachnids where they develop book lungs as a gas exchange organ for respiration.
- Arachnida can be found in almost every corner of the globe from the remote seas to the highest mountains.
- Despite venom produced by several species in class arachnida it rarely causes death in humans.
- The study of the arachnida class helps gain insights into the evolutionary process.
- Most arachnida crawl on four pairs of walking legs having highly adaptable joints to move rapidly in confined spaces.