"pseudoscorpion" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsu.doʊˌskoɹ.pi.ən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudoscorpion.wav [US] Forms: pseudoscorpions [plural]
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  1. An arachnid belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida Synonyms: false scorpion, book scorpion Translations (arachnid): عَقْرَب زَائِفَة (ʕaqrab zāʔifa) [feminine] (Arabic), عَقْرَب مُزَيَّف (ʕaqrab muzayyaf) [masculine] (Arabic), pseudoescorpí [masculine] (Catalan), 擬蠍 /拟蝎 (nǐxiē) (Chinese Mandarin), pseudoscorpion [masculine] (French), Pseudoskorpion [masculine] (German), דמוי עקרב (dmuy akráv) [masculine] (Hebrew), זוטקרב (zutakráv) [masculine] (Hebrew), 蟹虫 (kanimushi) (Japanese), pseudoskorpiònas [masculine] (Lithuanian), séigoʼchilí bitseeʼ ádinígíí (Navajo), zaleszczotek [masculine] (Polish), pseudoescorpião [masculine] (Portuguese), pseudoscorpion [masculine] (Romanian), pseudoscorpie [feminine] (Romanian), ложноскорпио́н (ložnoskorpión) [masculine] (Russian), лжескорпио́н (lžeskorpión) [masculine] (Russian), псевдоскорпіо́н (psevdoskorpión) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ffugsgorpion [masculine] (Welsh)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.