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SUPERCLASS CHELICERATA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs

Synonyms:

Chelicerata; superclass Chelicerata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("superclass Chelicerata" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "superclass Chelicerata"):

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)

order Pycnogonida; Pycnogonida (sea spiders)

class Merostomata; Merostomata (used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida)

Holonyms ("superclass Chelicerata" is a member of...):

Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)

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