Word Finder - scorpion

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Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting in the end.

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The peasants put two scorpions in a large bottle, and then take wagers as to which will win the struggle. Slowly the scorpions circle each other, until one lashes out at the other, and strikes him dead.

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An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

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A very spiteful or vindictive person.

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A cheerleading move in which one foot is pulled back and held up with both hands while the performer stands on the other foot.

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A whip with points like a scorpion's tail.

The scorpion and the centipede are both common.

He scraped sand over the scorpion, burying it from her view.

The tarantula spider and the scorpion are found in the south of Italy.

Ages before Assur-bani-pal reigned at Nineveh the eighth month (Marchesvan) was known as " the month of the star of the Scorpion," the tenth (Tebet) belonged to the " star of the Goat," the twelfth (Adar) to the " star of the Fish of Ea."

Between the two and at the highest point of the arc, so far as morphological differentiation is concerned, stands the scorpion; near to it in the trilobite's direction (that is, on the ascending side) are Limulus and the Eurypterines - with a long gap, due to obliteration of the record, separating them from the trilobite.

He did so and a large scorpion fell out.

A lizard man fires a gun at a giant scorpion.

The scorpion, whose sting is sometimes fatal, is common.

The maceration of the soft parts of a scorpion preserved in weak spirit and the cleaning of the chitinized in-grown 1nus cuticle give rise to the false appearance of a limb axis carrying the lamellae.

The scorpion is abundant.

The animal still has a number of unusual features, even for a water scorpion.

However there was no sight of the much dreaded desert scorpion, spiders or snakes.

Treatment of a scorpion sting Pain at the site of the sting can sometimes be limited with an ice cube.

Each can be readily compared with the single-layered lateral eye of the scorpion.

The Scorpion's so-called Malpighian tubes are not the same organs as those so named in the other Tracheata.

Renal excretory caeca (Malpighian tubes) are developed from the proctodaeum (not from mesenteron as in scorpion and Amphipoda).

Besides the ordinary European scorpion, which is general in southern Europe, there is another species, the sting of which is said to be still more severe, found chiefly in the basin of the Ebro.

Between these two extremes the other parts and organs of the body were distributed among the remaining signs of the zodiac, the neck being assigned to the Bull, the shoulders and arms to the Gemini (or twins), the breast to Cancer, the flanks to Leo, the bladder to Virgo, the buttocks to the Balance, the pubis to the Scorpion, the thighs to Sagittarius, the knees to Capricorn, and the limbs to Aquarius.

If Mercury is in the sign of the Scorpion he will be bald, &c."

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Scorpion fish were abundant but luckily the one I almost squashed didn't take offense.

An interesting if brief history of the real life Scorpion King, presuming such a man existed that is.

Bonfinius describes a Hungarian battle formation called the scorpion where infantry formed its body and the warwagons and cavalry formed the pincers.

We gave a black scorpion a piece of Beef to see what it could do with it.

Orion's vulnerability was proven by the lowly but deadly scorpion.

The excitement of the evening was finding a scorpion in our wash basin.

I never saw a scorpion in person, but if I did I'd do my best to trap and release it.

A Northern Ireland woman has been stung by a rare scorpion during a visit to her local supermarket.

This type of sea scorpion is from the Silurian period.

The sacred beasts in the various temples, tame as far as possible, were of almost every conceivable variety, from the vulture to the swallow or the goose, from the lion to the shrew-mouse, from the hippopotamus to the sheep and the monkey, from the crocodile to the tortoise and the cobra, from the carp to the eel; the scorpion and the scarab beetle were perhaps the strangest in this strange company of deities.

We gave a black Scorpion a piece of Beef to see what it could do with it.

Orion 's vulnerability was proven by the lowly but deadly Scorpion.

The 8.5m Scorpion is well suited to the full width luxuriously upholstered aft seat which is integrated with the outboard well.

The scorpion is rare, but large and venomous spiders are common.

The spiders are specialized and reduced in apparent complexity, as compared with the scorpions, but they cannot be regarded as degenerate since the concentration of structure which occurs in them results in greater efficiency and power than are exhibited by the scorpion.

The muscles acting on the bulb-like pharynx now set up a pumping action (see Huxley, 26); and the juices - but no solid matter, excepting such as is reduced to powder - are sucked into the scorpion's alimentary canal.

The typical bas relief, which is found in great abundance in the museums of Europe, invariably represents Mithras, under the form of a youth with conical cap and flying drapery, slaying the sacred bull, the scorpion attacking the genitals of the animal, the serpent drinking its blood, the dog springing towards the wound in its side, and frequently, in addition, the Sun-god, his messenger the raven, a fig-tree, a lion, a ewer, and torch-bearers.

A scorpion fell out and she gasped in horror, flipping it away with her boot.

These segments are very mobile, and as the rove-beetles run along they often curl the abdomen upwards and forwards like the tail of a scorpion.

The bite of the scorpion and of the numerous spiders produces no serious effects.

They are not specially sensitive under ordinary conditions, and may be touched or even pinched without causing any discomfort to the scorpion.

Bernard (13B) showed that the opening remains in the adult scorpion.

It is very probable that in Scorpio they do not serve merely to secrete a digestive fluid (shown in other Arthropoda to resemble the pancreatic fluid), but that they also become distended by the juices of the prey sucked in by the scorpion - as certainly must occur in the case of the simple unbranched gastric caeca of the spiders.

The female scorpion is viviparous, and the young are produced in a highly developed condition as fully formed scorpions.

It is all the more remarkable that the scorpion proves to be the oldest animal form of high elaboration which has persisted to the present day.

It is probable that the Silurian scorpion was an aquatic animal, and that its respiratory lamellae were still projecting from the surface of the body to serve as branchiae.

Bourne (24), the poison exuded by the sting has no injurious effect on another scorpion nor on the scorpion itself.

The stories of a scorpion stinging itself to death when placed in a circle of burning coals are due to erroneous observation.

When placed in such a position the scorpion faints and becomes inert.

It is found (Bourne, 24) that some species of scorpion faint at a temperature of 4 0 0 Cent.