Crossword-Solution: ARACHNIDS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARACHNIDS (5)
How is it done? Does our intrepid weaver hurl himself madly six feet into the dark, trusting to catch the leaf at the other end? Can he jump so far? [* Perhaps the structural talent of our Salamis arachnids is exceptional.
This homology is extended to all Arachnids; their first two pairs of appendages, however they may be modified as "false" mandibles and "false" maxillæ, really correspond to the second and third maxillipedes in Crustacea, and to the second and third pairs of feet in insects.
Audouin, in his memoir, _Recherches anatomiques sur le thorax des animaux articulés_,[135] applied the principle of the unity of plan and composition to the exoskeleton of insects, Crustaceans, and Arachnids.
But some of his homologies showed morphological insight, _e.g._, his comparison of the "first jaws" of Arachnids to antennæ, because they were placed above the upper lip.
Acerata: arthropods without true antennae Arachnids and Limulus Acetabular caps: Hemiptera; the coxal cavity.
Quotes with ARACHNIDS (3)
Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
As I travelled south through Europe everything got bigger. This applied to nice things like fruit-the nectarines and tomatoes were about six times as large in Greece as they were in Britain for example. But the principle also applied to unpleasant things, like spiders, and worms, and all other nameless and horrifying insects and arachnids of Greece.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).