harvestman
A male harvester; any harvesterA male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time).
» The harvestman bobbed up and down.
Meaning
2 sensesA male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time).
Near-synonym: carter
An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones; any individual of this order.
Afterspinne, Kanker, Schneckenkanker
сеноко́сецsenokósec
коса́рикkosáryk
- spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs
Examples
6 sentencesThe harvestman bobbed up and down.
There's a harvestman in that toilet.
Tom is an opilionologist, a specialist in harvestmen.
Harvestmen emit a foul odor when threatened.
deWeberknechte sondern einen üblen Geruch ab, wenn sie bedroht werden. — brauchinet
It's a harvestman.
Translations
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Origin
From harvest + -man.From harvest + -man.
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Forms
plural: harvestmen| Singular | harvestman |
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| Plural | harvestmen |
irregular · Lesson
Synonyms
7 synonyms- spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs:daddy longlegsPhalangium opilio
Word family
10 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular