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Scorpion

Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones having a suctorial mouth large claw bearing palpi and a caudal sting...

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws as in the scorpions but destitute of a caudal sting the false scorpions Called also Pseudoscorpii and Pseudoscorpionina See Illust of Book scorpion under Book...

VerbarNepa

A genus of aquatic hemipterous insects The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity called also scorpion bug and water scorpion...

Pedipalpi

A division of Arachnida including the whip scorpions Thelyphonus and allied forms Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions...

Chelicera

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs terminated by a pincherlike claw in scorpions and allied Arachnida They are homologous with the falcers of spiders and probably with the mandibles of insects...