Crossword clues for vinegarroon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vinegarroon \Vin`e*gar*roon"\, n. [Cf. Sp. vinagre vinegar.] A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species ( Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of vinegaroon English)
WordNet
n. large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed [syn: Mastigoproctus giganteus]
Usage examples of "vinegarroon".
The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chowdog's, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sandvipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon.