chelifer cancroides

1. 1.

   minute arachnid sometimes found in old papers

   Synonymsbook scorpion

   Broaderfalse scorpion

   Part ofChelifer

Questions about chelifer cancroides

What does chelifer cancroides mean?

chelifer cancroides means "minute arachnid sometimes found in old papers".

What is another word for chelifer cancroides?

Close synonyms include book scorpion. 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 chelifer cancroides a common word?

chelifer cancroides 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.