Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arachnophagic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: arachnophag-ic
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Spider-eating.

Example Sentences

"Though ordinarily arachnophagic (Jackson & Brassington 1987; Jackson & Rowe 1987) a female P. phalangioides will feed her young, (Bonizzi 1869; pers. obs.) so the mother was maintained with her brood until a further cocoon was laid."
"In the alternative predator defence hypothesis, the signal receivers are the spiders’ predators such as wasps, parasitic flies, praying mantises, arachnophagic jumping spiders that have acute visual senses or birds (Wise 1993)."
"At present, they are mainly divided into two types: kleptoparasitic (Plokiophilidae, the genus Ranzovius Distant, 1893 of Miridae, Arachnocoris) and arachnophagic (Emesinae) (Soley et al. 2011; Mercado and Santiago-Blay 2015; Schuh and Weirauch 2020)."

Etymology

From arachno- + -phagic. Piecewise doublet of araneophagic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: arachno
Suffix: phagic

Frequently Paired Words

arachnophage arachnophagous arachnophagy

Synonyms

arachnophagous araneophagic araneophagous

Questions

What does arachnophagic mean?: Spider-eating.
Where does arachnophagic come from?: From arachno- + -phagic. Piecewise doublet of araneophagic.

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