CHELONETHIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chelonethida mean? 

• CHELONETHIDA (noun)
  The noun CHELONETHIDA has 1 sense:

1. false scorpions

  Familiarity information: CHELONETHIDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHELONETHIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

False scorpions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chelonethida; order Chelonethida; order Pseudoscorpiones; order Pseudoscorpionida; Pseudoscorpiones; Pseudoscorpionida

Hypernyms ("Chelonethida" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Chelonethida"):

false scorpion; pseudoscorpion (small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion)

Chelifer; genus Chelifer (a genus of Chelonethida)

Holonyms ("Chelonethida" is a member of...):

Arachnida; class Arachnida (a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings)