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Xiphosuran. World English Historical Dictionary

Xiphosuran. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Xiphosuran a. and sb. Zool. [f. mod.L. Xiphosūra pl. (irreg. f. Gr. ξίφος sword + οὐρά tail, instead of the correct form Xiphūra) + -AN.] a. adj. Belonging to the order Xiphosura of Arachnida, including the king-crab (Limulus) with a long sharp telson, and the extinct genus Belinurus. b. sb. An arachnid of this order, So Xiphosure (= b); Xiphosurous, Xiphurous adjs. (= a).

1 1837.  Penny Cycl., IX. 460/1. Latreille … admitted into the class Crustacea 12 orders, viz., the Decapods,… the Xyphosures [sic], and the Siphonostomes.

2 1879.  H. A. Nicholson, Palæont. (ed. 2), I. xviii. 385. In the Devonian no certain traces of Xiphosurans have yet been detected, but several types occur in the Carboniferous.

3 1888.  Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 528. A Xiphosuran is found in the upper Silurian.

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