camel spider

English

A camel spider

Noun

camel spider (plural camel spiders)

1. Any fast-moving, predatory desert arachnid belonging to the order Solifugae having massive paired chelicerae and a long body covered with tactile hairs.

Usage notes

• Camel spiders are not true spiders.

Synonyms

• red roman, solifuge, solifugid, sun spider, wind scorpion
• jerrymander, jerrymunglum (dated)

Translations

arachnid belonging to the order Solifugae

• Armenian: փաղանգ (hy) (pʻaġang), բով (hy) (bov) (dialectal)
• Azerbaijani: böyə
• Catalan: solífug m
• Dutch: rolspin f, bastaardspin f
• Finnish: arolukki
• French: solifuge (fr) m
• German: Walzenspinne f
• Hebrew: עַכְשׁוּב (he) m ('achshúv)
• Italian: solifugo m
• Navajo: zahalchíʼii
• Portuguese: solífugo m, solpugídeo m
• Russian: фала́нга (ru) f (falánga), сольпу́га (ru) f (solʹpúga), бихо́рка (ru) f (bixórka)
• Seri: catax quip
• Spanish: solífugo m
• Swedish: skorpionspindel c, kamelspindel c
• Tat: bö
• Turkish: böğ (tr)

References

• camel spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Solifugae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Solifugae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons