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ORDER UROPYGI

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Whip scorpions

Synonyms:

order Pedipalpi; order Uropygi; Pedipalpi; Uropygi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("order Uropygi" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Uropygi"):

whip-scorpion; whip scorpion (nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger)

genus Mastigoproctus; Mastigoproctus (giant whip scorpions)

Holonyms ("order Uropygi" 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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