Meaning

2 senses
  1. A male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time).

    Near-synonym: carter

  2. An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones; any individual of this order.

    Afterspinne, Kanker, Schneckenkanker

    сеноко́сецsenokósec

    коса́рикkosáryk

More definitions
  • spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The harvestman bobbed up and down.

  2. There's a harvestman in that toilet.

  3. Tom is an opilionologist, a specialist in harvestmen.

  4. Harvestmen emit a foul odor when threatened.

    deWeberknechte sondern einen üblen Geruch ab, wenn sie bedroht werden. — brauchinet

  5. It's a harvestman.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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arachnid:

Origin

From harvest + -man.

From harvest + -man.

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Forms

plural: harvestmen
Singularharvestman
Pluralharvestmen

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

7 synonyms
carterdaddy longlegsharvest spidershepherd spidergrandfather-graybeardharry-longlegs
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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