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pycnogonida
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pycnogonida has 1 sense
- pycnogonida(n = noun.animal) order pycnogonida - sea spiders; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of chelicerata, superclass chelicerata
CIDE DICTIONARY
pycnogonida, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. thick crowded + knee.].
A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda . [1913 Webster]
" The abdomen is rudimentary, and the triangular mouth is at the end of a tubular proboscis. Many of them live at great depths in the sea, and the largest of them measure two feet across the extended legs."
[1913 Webster]
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