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hypochilids

hypochilids is the plural of hypochilid.

Meaning of hypochilid

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

Questions about hypochilids

What is hypochilids the plural of?
Hypochilids is the plural of hypochilid.

Words near hypochilids in the dictionary

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

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