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harvestman

[hahr-vist-muhn] / ˈhɑr vɪst mən /
NOUN
arachnid
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The team also revealed a treasure trove of underground species, including blind spiders, blind harvestman, and a whip scorpion, all new to science, in a previously unexplored cave system.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

Three arthropod species were named for him by other scientists — a spider, a millipede and a spider relative called a harvestman.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

The user also tested it out and found some poor results: “One of my harvestman photos was IDed as a jumping spider, one as a termite, and another one as a crane fly.”

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2022

The harvestman makes its way through the mossy woodland on eight spindly legs, delicate tentpoles supporting a plump body with two tiny eyes.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

Having heard that Daddy Longlegs was a harvestman, she urged him to go to work for Farmer Green at harvest time.

From The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug by Arthur Scott Bailey

These included familiar ones we'd recognize, such as spiders, harvestmen and scorpions -- as well exotic animals that now occur in warmer regions like whip spiders and whip scorpions.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

Looking at the shapes traced by the tags, he matched the locations of the unexpected opsins on the harvestmen to approximately where extra eyes grow on spiders and horseshoe crabs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

The mix includes bigger spiders, as well as harvestmen.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

The glowing replicas lured an array of ants, cockroaches, flies, beetles, spiders, harvestmen, slugs, snails and centipedes.

From Reuters ● Mar. 19, 2015

Ah! she was a maid of mettle; would romp with the harvestmen, slap one upon the back, wrestle with another, and had a rogue's trick and a joke for all round.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin


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