phalangid Zool.
(fəˈlændʒɪd)
[f. mod.L. Phalangidæ, f. phalangium: see -id3.]
An arachnid of the family Phalangidæ or order Phalangidea (typical genus Phalangium), related to the mites, but more resembling spiders, without spinnerets or poison-glands, and usually with very long and slender legs; the common species are known as harvest-spiders or harvestmen, and in U.S. as daddy-long-legs. So phaˈlangidan; phalanˈgidean a., belonging to the Phalangidea.
| 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. II. xix. 303 The Class consists of two Orders..Pseudo Scorpions and Phalangidans. 1875 Cambridge in Encycl. Brit. II. 278/2 Phalangids..popularly known by the name of ‘Harvest-men’. 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 528 A Scorpion has been found in Silurian strata, and a Phalangid in the Solenhofen slates (Mesozoic). |