phalangium opilio

1. 1.

   spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

   Synonymsharvestmandaddy longlegs

   Broaderarachnid

   Part ofPhalangium

Questions about phalangium opilio

What does phalangium opilio mean?

phalangium opilio means "spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs".

What is another word for phalangium opilio?

Close synonyms include harvestman, daddy longlegs. 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 phalangium opilio a common word?

phalangium opilio 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.