arachnid
arach·nid
noun
1.
air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
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From international scientific vocabulary, from French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) with the suffix -id.
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