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hypochilid

hypochilid noun: any member of the Hypochilidae (the lampshade spiders).

Noun

hypochilid (plural hypochilids)

  1. Any member of the Hypochilidae (the lampshade spiders).
    • Dr. Gertsch advised us that scorpions are remote relatives of spiders — no closer than a wasp is to a snout beetle — and that the rare ancient spider he nabbed was a hypochilid, dating back two hundred and fifty million years to the Carboniferous Age.1953, The New Yorker, volume 29, number 3, page 33
    • Their four booklungs linked these hypochilids with primitive mygalomorphs.1999, Raymond R. Forster, Spiders of New Zealand and Their World-wide Kin, page 69

Forms of hypochilid

pluralhypochilids

Questions about hypochilid

What does hypochilid mean?
Hypochilid means any member of the Hypochilidae (the lampshade spiders).
What part of speech is hypochilid?
Hypochilid is a noun.
What is the plural of hypochilid?
The plural of hypochilid is hypochilids.

Words near hypochilid in the dictionary

  1. hypocentre
  2. hypocentres
  3. hypocercal
  4. hypocerebral
  5. hypochiasmatic
  6. hypochilid
  7. hypochilids
  8. hypochloraemia
  9. hypochloraemias
  10. hypochloraemic
  11. hypochlorate

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