Definition of "pycnogonid" [pyc•nog•o•nid]

• See sea spider. (noun)

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• "The middle one is essentially a colorized version of the pycnogonid (sea spider) and Pompeii worm artwork I did in black and white for Chris Garcia's fanzine The Drink Tank a month or two ago."
• "A while back, I reported on a study of pycnogonids, the sea spiders, that appeared to show that that might not be the case: on the basis of neural organization and innervation, that study showed that the way pycnogonid chelifores a pair of large, fang-like structures at the front of the head were innervated suggested that they were homologous to great appendages."
• "Sea Spider (_pycnogonid_) from the Sea east of Cape Chelyuskin, drawn by ditto"