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Meaning of "sea spider" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEA SPIDER

sea spider


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEA SPIDER

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Sea spider is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEA SPIDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sea spider

Sea spiders, also called Pantopoda or pycnogonids, are marine arthropods of class Pycnogonida. They are cosmopolitan, found especially in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, as well as the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. There are over 1300 known species, ranging in size from 1 to 10 millimetres to over 90 cm in some deep water species. Most are toward the smaller end of this range in relatively shallow depths, however, they can grow to be quite large in Antarctic waters. Although "sea spiders" are not true spiders, or even arachnids, their traditional classification as chelicerates would place them closer to true spiders than to other well-known arthropod groups, such as insects or crustaceans. However even this is in dispute, as genetic evidence suggests they may even be an ancient sister group to all other living arthropods.

Definition of sea spider in the English dictionary

The definition of sea spider in the dictionary is a small marine arachnid, having four pairs of legs and somewhat resembling a spider, unusual in that the male carries the eggs once they are laid and cares for the offspring.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEA SPIDER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SEA SPIDER

aider · bird spider · black widow spider · cardinal spider · collider · consider · diadem spider · house spider · hunting spider · insider · jumping spider · money spider · provider · red spider · redback spider · rider · spider · trap-door spider · water spider · wolf spider

Synonyms and antonyms of sea spider in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sea spider» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEA SPIDER

Find out the translation of sea spider to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sea spider from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sea spider» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

海蜘蛛
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

araña de mar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

sea spider
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्र मकड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العنكبوت البحر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

море паук
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

aranha do mar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সমুদ্র মাকড়সা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

araignée de mer
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Labah-labah laut
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Meerspinne
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ウミグモ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

바다 거미
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Laba-laba segara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhện biển
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் சிலந்தி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

समुद्र स्पायडर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Deniz örümcek
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

ragno di mare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pająk morski
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

море павук
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

păianjen mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θάλασσα αράχνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

see spin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hav spindel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Havedderkoppen
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA SPIDER»

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Aquatic Life of the World: Sea pen-Swordfish
This sea spider is crawling across the surface of a velvet starfish. Such soft- bodied animals are the sea spider's favorite prey. FACT FILE Name Sea spider ( Anoplodactylus lentus) Distinctive features Well-developed chelicerae; no ovigers on ...
‎2001
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Seaside Naturalist
But one good look at that tangled mass of marine life usually will reveal at least one sea spider — a slow, tiny, crawling arthropod. Sea spiders are common in all oceans, yet their small size (one-sixteenth to one-half of an inch), camouflaging ...
‎1990
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A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern ...
15.3 Achelia spinosa. Spiny legs. Ovigerous legs always present on both sexes. On hydroids, ascidians, or under stones. Ac-,Ha-Al,Li-,pr,3 mm (o.1 in), ). (FIG. 15.3) FIG. 15.4 Anoplodactylus lentus, lentil sea spider. Dark reddish purple color ; ...
Leland W. Pollock, 1998
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A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore: From the Bay of ...
ANEMONE SEA SPIDER Pycnogonum littorale p. 202 Proboscis conical, without appendages. To 3 /16 in. (5 mm). SARGASSUM SEA SPIDER Endeis spinosa More slender than preceding; with longer proboscis, also without appendages.
Roger Tory Peterson, 1999
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High-Interest Reading: Fascinating Creatures
Sea Spider together glued creatures skeleton spider Words to Know glued crea • tures skel • e • ton spi • der to • geth • er Where's the Head? It's all legs and lives in the sea. What is it? It is a sea spider. Sea spiders don't really seem to have a ...
Remedia Publications
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Deep Challenge: Our Quest for Energy Beneath the Sea: Our ...
before it came within firing range of U.S. territory, it was enmeshed in an electronic web called "Sea Spider." In its time, Sea Spider was the most elaborate system ever built for tracking ships both on and beneath the water. Composed of a vast ...
Clyde W. Burleson, 1998
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Multiphoton Processes and Attosecond Physics: Proceedings of ...
We characterize the compressed pulses with a spatially encoded arrangement for direct electric field reconstruction by spectral shearing interferometry (SEA- SPIDER) [9]. SEA-SPIDER offers significant advantages over the traditional SPIDER ...
Kaoru Yamanouchi, Midorikawa Katsumi, 2012
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Position-Determining System for Sea-Spider Hydrophone Arrays
An electronic system has been developed which is capable of measuring the elapsed travel time for three acoustic sources to any one of 12, 24, 36 hydrophones.
W. M Lawson (Jr), NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC., 1971
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Hox Genes: Studies from the 20th to the 21st Century
A recent study on the neuroanatomy of a sea spider challenged the homology of pycnogonid chelifores and chelicerate cheliceres.26 This study suggested that the chelifores ofpycnogonids are innervated by the protocerebrum and not by the  ...
Jean S. Deutsch, 2011
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Ordered Chaos: The Interpretation of English Noun-noun Compounds
... LOCIN* X an underwater plant that resembles a sofa LOCIN* X a soft bulbous plant found in the ocean LOCIN* X a very comfortable boat LOCIN* X a natural " sofa" located in the water of the sea LOCIN* X SEA-SPIDER 27 a spider who lives ...
Mary Ellen Ryder, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEA SPIDER»

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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Isn't a Spider, But It Does Have …
Sea spider This isn't slowmo. It's how a sea spider actually moves. The critter was spotted 8,675 feet deep off the coast of Vancouver by a submersible manned ... «Wired, May 15»
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Sea Spiders Have Acrobatic Sex With Their Legs
Sea spiders have always been shrouded in a bit of a mystery in the scientific world. Technically, sea spiders are not spiders at all, considering they breath ... «Guardian Liberty Voice, May 15»
3
Electric Sea Spider 'Magic Jaw'
Establishing himself under the name, ELECTRIC SEA SPIDER, the artist has recently released his new single, 'Ten Hunters'. Now coupled with a B-side, check ... «Purple Sneakers, Dec 14»
4
New sea spider species found on Dutch coast
The Sea Spider, scientific name Endeis spinosa, was discovered on the seabed of Oosterschelde by divers in August, officially placing it on the indigenous ... «NL Times, Sep 14»
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Franz Josef Land Expediton: Ice and Giant Sea Spiders
The giant sea spider Anomorhynchus smithii, a species described for the first time in Franz Josef Land in 1881. (Photo by Enric Sala). National Geographic ... «National Geographic, Jul 13»
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5 Weirdest Antarctic Species
Gillless creatures such as sea spiders breathe through holes in their bodies, which allows more oxygen to be absorbed into their bodies—thus allowing them to ... «National Geographic, May 12»
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Oceans could contain 750000 undiscovered species
Giant sea spiders the size of dinner plates. Wriggly creatures nicknamed "Squidworms" because of their strange-looking tentacles. A blind lobster whose Latin ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 10»
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PHOTO GALLERY: Sea Squirts, Sea Spiders Discovered In …
Scientists have discovered previously unknown species of carnivorous sea squirts and sea spiders living in deep waters off the Australian coast. «The Inquisitr, Jan 09»
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'Monster' giant beasts found in Antarctic waters
An Australian research cruise in the icy waters off Antarctica has discovered a whole host of giant sea beasts, including worms, crustaceans and sea spiders ... «Nature.com, Feb 08»
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Scientists capture giant Antarctic sea creatures
SYDNEY Scientists studying Antarctic waters have filmed and captured giant sea creatures, like sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jelly fish with six meter ... «Reuters, Feb 08»
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