Sea Spider

Word SEA SPIDER
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Definitions and meanings of "Sea Spider"

What do we mean by sea spider?

Any arthropod in the taxonomic class Pycnogonida.

Any marine animal whose appearance suggests a spider.

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The word "sea-spider" in example sentences

A few steps off, a monstrous sea-spider, about thirty-eight inches high, was watching me with squinting eyes, ready to spring upon me. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Yet Lute Casagave quite placidly enjoyed a stew of sea-spider, and afterward a fine grilled duck-fish, no less than I. ❋ Vance, Jack (1973)

I approached the sea-spider drew back into its native element, and presently sank with its prey beneath the waves. ❋ George Forbes (N/A)

Within a week from the carrying off of Moira by the sea-spider, I began to miss supplies of fish and flesh which I kept in the storehouse cave. ❋ George Forbes (N/A)

We now gave ourselves up for lost, when suddenly out of the sea rose another huge bulk, resembling the sea-spider which had carried off poor ❋ George Forbes (N/A)

A few steps off, a monster sea-spider, about forty inches high, was watching me with squinting eyes, ready to spring on me. ❋ Hetty Sibyl Browne (1907)

The yield of the trawling was extraordinarily abundant; large asterids, crinoids, sponges, holothuria, a gigantic sea-spider (Pycnogonid), masses of worms, crustacea, &c. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

Among the forms collected here we may specially refer to the large sea-spider, of which a drawing is given (p. 349); and three specimens of small stalked crinoids. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

The father sea-spider carries about the eggs attached to two of his limbs; the father sea-horse puts his mate's eggs into his breast pocket and carries them there in safety until they are hatched; the father stickleback of the shore-pools makes a seaweed nest and guards the eggs which his wives are induced to lay there; the father lumpsucker mounts guard over the bunch of pinkish eggs which his mate has laid in a nook of a rocky shore-pool, and drives off intruders with zest. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

Showing a deep-sea fish of large gape, two feather-stars on the end of long stalks, a "sea-spider" (or Pycnogon) walking on lanky legs on the treacherous ooze, likewise a brittle-star, and some deep-sea corals.] ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

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