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arachnid

noun as in spider

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He’s now set to headline “Nest,” a movie about a young family whose home is invaded by deadly arachnids.

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On three of the four walls there are floor-to-ceiling shelves stacked full of the arachnids, with a black curtain pulled across to keep them calm.

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He has used the example of Ebbsfleet in Kent, where he said the "dream of home ownership for thousands of families" had been "held back by arachnids".

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That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa.

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For Waterhouse, the discovery of the arachnid wasn’t just throwaway internet fodder — it became a metaphor for her own memoir and, in turn, “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin,” due Sept. 13 on Sub Pop.

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