Dionychan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dionychan is a noun meaning (zoology) Any spider of the clade Dionycha.
Meaning
(zoology) Any spider of the clade Dionycha.
Example Sentences
This is so even though the closest relatives of Anyphaenidae are not yet determined, as is true for most dionychan families (Coddington and Levi, 1991), because anyphaenids are quite uniform in some characters not commonly found on other spiders (the details of the claw tufts and the tracheal system).
Word Forms
- dionychans
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dictynid, clubionid, dictynoid, clubionoid, dysderid, nicodamid.
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