arachnoid

1. 1.

   relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

   Synonymsarachnidianspideryspiderlikespiderly

   zoology

Other forms of arachnoid

plural

arachnoids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arachnoid

What does arachnoid mean?

arachnoid means "the middle of the 3 meninges". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arachnoid?

arachnoid has 3 syllables: a-rach-noid. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for arachnoid?

Close synonyms include arachnoid membrane, arachnid, arachnidian, spidery, spiderlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arachnoid a common word?

arachnoid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.