vinegaroon
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish vinagrón, from vinagre (“vinegar”) + -ón (augmentative suffix). Influenced by vinegar.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvinegaroon (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
editwhip 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