Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me), it’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week.
If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.
Here’s this week’s WOW:
Word: Arachnida
Part Of Speech: noun; plural noun: Arachnida
Pronunciation: uh–rak-ni-duh n
Meaning:
a class of chelicerate arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks. They have become adapted for a terrestrial life and possess both lungs and tracheae, and many have silk or poison glands.
Synonyms: Arachnid, Class Arachnida.
Antonyms: None
Word Origin: modern Latin (plural), from Greek arakhnē ‘spider’.
Use in sentence: The Spiders are the most numerous and diversified group of the Arachnida; about 2000 species are known.
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