PEDIPALPI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pedipalpi mean? 

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

1. whip scorpions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDIPALPI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whip scorpions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Pedipalpi; order Uropygi; Pedipalpi; Uropygi

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Pedipalpi"):

whip-scorpion; whip scorpion (nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger)

genus Mastigoproctus; Mastigoproctus (giant whip scorpions)

Holonyms ("Pedipalpi" 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)