OPILIONES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Opiliones mean? 

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

1. harvestmen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPILIONES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Harvestmen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Opiliones; order Opiliones; order Phalangida; Phalangida

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Opiliones"):

family Phalangiidae; Phalangiidae (a family of Phalangida)

Holonyms ("Opiliones" 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)