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Tarantula or scorpion, but not killer bee
Answer for the clue "Tarantula or scorpion, but not killer bee ", 8 letters:
arachnid
Alternative clues for the word arachnid
Word definitions for arachnid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arachnid \A*rach"nid\, n. An arachnidan. --Huxley. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders and scorpions, of the class ''Arachnida''
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs [syn: arachnoid ]
Usage examples of arachnid.
She held her hand before her face and watched a small red arachnid with overlarge mandibles crawl along her fingers.
She walked toward Danifae and stomped on the red arachnid that Danifae had just released onto the rocks.
As he walked past where Quenthel had been standing, he caught sight of a small red arachnid that looked very similar to that which Quenthel had squashed.
A huge, black, hairy arachnid leaped on her back and sank its fangs into her shoulder, but her mail withstood the attack.
The enchanted steel killed where it struck, slicing arachnid flesh easily, but there were thousands of them.
The power of the spell flattened the enormous arachnid, opened its exoskeleton, and a host of smaller spiders leaped upon it to feed.
A ripple ran through the arachnid host gathered at the far edge of the plains, an anticipatory shuffling.
Those glistening, dripping fangs were an inch from his legs when he squeezed the trigger, the rifle recoiling into his shoulder as the heavy slug tore through the arachnid and it stopped dead.
Gardener and Anjemalti bent together over the Arachnid, exploring of this and the other.
And almost fell over the knee-high, eight-legged, steel-shelled Arachnid, its lantern eyes glowing orange.
With that she was gone and the Gardener and Anjemalti bent together over the Arachnid, exploring of this and the other.
Together, they lifted the hatch aside and stood back to let the Arachnid enter the service tunnel.
Chainer was sure no one noticed the arachnid as it scuttled to the edge of the pit and began making a wide arc toward the white-robed mage.
Not even the most radical of the young dremecks would kill an arachnid if it crawled down his neck.
Like some great arachnid of pure force, the demon flames of the destruction swept and washed across the vision, and when it faded, Bright Eyes lay shaken by what he had seen.