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Any of various large, segmented aquatic arthropods of the order Eurypterida that existed from the Ordovician Period to the Permian Period.

[From New Latin Eurypterida, order name, from Eurypterus, genus name : eury- + Greek pteron, wing; see -pter.]

eurypterid [jʊˈrɪptərɪd]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any large extinct scorpion-like aquatic arthropod of the group Eurypterida, of Palaeozoic times, thought to be related to the horseshoe crabs

[from New Latin Eurypterida, from eury- + Greek pteron wing, feather]

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eurypterid - large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs

arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

Eurypterida, order Eurypterida - extinct aquatic arthropods of the Paleozoic

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eurypterid (redirected from Giant Water Scorpion)

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