chelicerata

1. 1.

   spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs

   Synonymssuperclass Chelicerata

   Broaderclass

   Part ofArthropoda

Other forms of chelicerata

plural

cheliceratas·

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 chelicerata

What does chelicerata mean?

chelicerata means "spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs".

How many syllables are in chelicerata?

chelicerata has 5 syllables: che-li-ce-ra-ta. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for chelicerata?

Close synonyms include superclass Chelicerata. 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 chelicerata a common word?

chelicerata 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.