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vinegarroon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun vinegarroon has 1 sense
- vinegarroon(n = noun.animal) mastigoproctus giganteus - large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed; Array is a kind of whip-scorpion, whip scorpion
is a member of genus mastigoproctus, mastigoproctus
CIDE DICTIONARY
vinegarroon, 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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