vinegaroon
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish vinagrón, from vinagre (“vinegar”) + -ón (augmentative suffix). Influenced by vinegar.
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Noun edit
vinegaroon (plural vinegaroons)
- A whip scorpion (arachnid of order Thelyphonida), which when threatened may eject a liquid containing acetic acid.
- 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- I have found dead vinegaroons […] kille by a harvester ant sting successfuly placed in the intersegmental membranes of the vinegaroon's crushing, claw-like pedipalps[.]
Translations edit
whip scorpion
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References edit
- “vinegaroon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Thelyphonida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Thelyphonida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Thelyphonida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons