EURYPTERID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("eurypterid" is a kind of...):

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

Holonyms ("eurypterid" is a member of...):

Eurypterida; order Eurypterida (extinct aquatic arthropods of the Paleozoic)

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