Chelicerata

plural noun

Che·lic·er·ata | \ kə-ˌli-sə-ˈrä-tə ,

-ˈrā-tə \

Definition of Chelicerata

: a subphylum or other division of the phylum Arthropoda comprising forms having chelicerae and lacking antennae and including the horseshoe crabs and eurypterids, spiders, scorpions, and sea spiders A fossil eurypterid, representing the Chelicerata. —Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life, 1989 — see arachnida , merostomata , pycnogonida

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