Arachnology
Entomology
Invertebrate Zoology
Vertebrate Zoology
Word Roots
Strange Tales
Rokes and Jiddles
A Dictionary for Arachnology
Head Words C - D
Caddoidea, Caecal, Caeculoidea, Caecum (Coecum, Cecum), Caelate, Caenodynamism, Caenogaea (Cainogea), Caenogenetic (Caenogenesis), Caenomorphism, Caeruleus (Coeruleus), Caerulescent, Caesius (Caeous), Caespiticolous, Cainozoic, Calamistrum, Calamistra, Calcar, Calcarate, Calcaratus, Calcariform, Calceolate (Calceoliform, Calceiform), Caliciform, Calcosaxicolous, Caliology, Californicus (California Mite), Callosity, Callous, Calorigenesis (Calorigenic), Calyciform, Calycine, Calycle/Calyculus, Calyoptis Larva, Calyptostasic, Calyptostase (Nymphochrysalis), Calyptostomatoidea, Calyptra, Calyx, Cameration, Camerostome, Camouflage, Campaniform, Campestral, Canaliculate, Canaliculi, Canaliculus, Canaliform, Canescent, Canestrinioidea, Canities, Cannibalism, Cannula, Canopy, Canus, Capillaceous, Capillaris, Capillary, Capillate, Capillatus (Coryphatus), Capillii, Capitate, Capitular Apodeme, Capitular Capsule (Gnathosomal Capsule), Capitular Saddle, Capituliform, Capitulum (Gnathosoma), Caponiidae, Caponioidea, Capsular, Capsulate, Capsule, Capsule Gland (Capsulogenous Gland), Caput, Carabodoidea, Carapace, Carbonarius, Carbonicolous, Carcinoid, Cardiac, Cardiac Mark, Cardiform, Carina, Carinate, Cariniform, Carinula, Carinulae, Carinulate, Carious, Cariose, Carneous, Carneus, Carnivore, Carnose, Carotene, Carotin, Carotenophore, Carrion, Carrying Capacity, Caruncle, Cary-, Caryophylleous, Cassideous, , Catalepsis, Cataphract, Cataphractus, Cataplexy, Catatrepsis, Catenane, Catenate, Catenoid, Catenular, Catenulate, Cateniform, Catenuliform, Catervatum, Caudal, Caudal Bend, Caudal Seta, Caudal View, Caudocephalad, Caudocephalic, Caudodorsad, Caul, Caulescent, Cauliform, Cauligastric, Cavate, Cavernarius, Cavernicolous, Cavernosus, Cement Gland, Cement Layer, Cement Sac, Central Nervous System (CNS), Center Of Origin, Centrifugal Speciation, Centripetal, Centrolecithal, Cephalad, Cephalate, Cephalic, Cephalic Region, Cephalization, Cephalon, Cephalothoracic Junction, Cephalothoracic Shield, Cephalothorax (Prosoma), Cephalous, Cepheid, Cepheoidea, Ceps, Ceraceous, Ceral, Ceratozetoidea, Cercomegistina, Cercomegistoidea, Cere, Cereous, Ceriferous, Cerotegument, Cerulean, Cervical, Cervical Grooves, Cervix (Cervices), Cesious, Cespiticolous, Cespitose, Caespitose, Cestiform, Chactoidea, Chaeriloidea, Chaetae, Chaetome, Chaetotaxy (Setation), Chaetiferous (Chaetigerous, Setiferous), Chaetigerous Sac, Chaetophorous, Chagrined, Chain Response, Chalastogastrous, Chalceous, Chalceus, Chalice, Challenge Display, Chalybeate, Chalybeatus, Chaly-Beous, Chalybeus, Chambered, Chaparral, Chaperon, Chaplet, Character, Character Displacement, Character Divergence, Character Gradient, Charassobatoidea, Charinoidea, Charontoidea, Checkered, Cheiridioidea, Chela, Chelate, Chelate-Dentate, Chelate-Serrate, Chelicerae, Cheliceral Boss, Cheliceral Extension, Cheliceral Frame, Cheliceral Gland, Cheliceral Groove (Fang Furrow), Cheliceral Guides (Outer Infracapitular Stylets), Cheliceral Lamina, Cheliceral Retainer, Cheliceral Seta, Cheliceral Sheath, Cheliceral Teeth, Chelicerata, Chelicerate, Cheliferoidea, Cheliferous, Cheliform, Chelonethida, Chemoceptor, Chemokinesis, Chemoreceptor (Chemoceptor), Chemoreflex, Chemosensation, Chemotaxis, Chemotropism, Chernetes, Chersophilous, Chevron, Cheyletid, Cheyletoidea, Cheyletiosis, Chigger, Chilean Predatory Mite, Chilum, Chitin, Chitinase, Chitinization, Chitinogenous, Chitinophilus, Chitinous, Chitinovore, Chitonostracum, Chitosan, Chitose, Chlamydate, Chlamydeous, Choanoid, Chordotonal Organs/Receptors (Chordotonal Sensilla), Chorion, Chorology, Chromatocyte (Chromocytes), Chromatotropism, Chromocytes, Chromogen, Chromogenesis, Chromogenic, Chromolipids, Chromophanes, Chromotropic, Chronic, Chronocline, Chronofauna, Chronospecies, Chronotropic, Chrysargyrus, Chthonioidea, Chyzeroidea, Cinct, Cinereous, Cinerescent, Cingulatus (Cinetus), Cingulum, Cinnabarine, Cinnamomeous, Circadian Clocks, Circadian Rhythms (Diurnal Rhythms), Circannual Rhythms, Circinal, Circinate, Circlet, Circular Overlap (A Rassenkreis), Circulatory System, Circulatus, Circulus (Circuli), Circumanal, Circumanal Setae, Circumaustral, Circumboreal, Circumcapitular Furrow, Circumgastric Scissure (Furrow), Circumgenital, Circumocular, Circumoesophageal, Circumoral, Circumpedal, Circumpolar, Circumscissile, Circumtropical, Circumvolution, Cisterna, Citrine, Citron Shaped, Clade, Cladistics, Clan, Clandestine Evolution, Claparède's Organ (Urstigma), Clasping Spine, Class, Clava, Clavate (Claviform), Clavus, Claw (Apotele, Unguis), Claw Dentition, Claw Teeth, Claw Tufts, Cleft, Cleptobiosis (Kleptobiosis), Cleptoparasite (Kleptoparasite), Climax Community, Clinal, Clinal Speciation, Cline, Clintheriform, Cloud Forest, Clubbed, Club Shaped, Clunals, Clunal Setae, Clypeal, Clypeate, Clypeiform, Clypeus, Coacervate, Coactus, Coadunate, Coagulation, Coalesce, Coalescent, Coalite, Cobweb Spiders, Cochlea, Cochleate (Cochleiformis), Cocoon, Coecal, Coecum, Coecum, Coeca, Coeloconoid (Extraconic), Coelomic Cavity, Coelomic Fluid, Coelomoduct, Coelomostome, Coenosis, Coenosite, Coenotropic Behavior (Coenotrope), Co-Evolution, Cohabitants, Cohort, Cold-Blooded Animals, Coliform, Collar, Collar Traechae, Collateral, Colliculose, Colliculate, Colliculum, Colligate, Colulate, Colulus, Comate, Comatus, Comb Claws, Comb-Footed Spiders, Comb Seta, Comb Shaped, Commensal (Commensalism), Comminute, Commissural Induration, Commissural Line, Communication, Community, Community Ecology, Comose, Companion Seta, Compass Orientation, Competition, Competitive Association, Competitive Exclusion Principle, Complanate, Complicate, Compound Ocellus, Compound Phanere, Compressed, Compressor, Concameration, Concatenate, Conchate/Conchiform, Concinate, Concinne, Concolor, Concolorous, Concrescence, Concrete, Concretion, Concurrent, Conductor, Conduplicate, Condyle, Condylophore, Cone Shaped, Confamilial, Conferted, Confertim, Conflect, Conflict, Confluent, Confused, Congener, Congeneric, Congenetic, Congenital, Congested, Conglobate, Conglobate, Conglomerate, Conico-Acuminate, Coniculus, Coniferous, Conispiral, Conjoined, Conjunctive, Connate, Connecting Ducts, Connective, Connivent, Conoid, Conoid Discs, Consanguinous Mating, Conscutum, Consimilar, Conspecific, Consperse, Conspurcatus, Constricted, Constrictor, Consute, Contractile, Conterminous, Contiguous, Continuous Breeder, Continuous Variation (Quantitative Inheritance), Contorted, Contractile Bulbils, Contralateral, Conus, Convergence (Convergent Evolution, Epharmonic Convergence), Convergent, Convex, Convolute, Co-Operation, Co-Operative Breeding, Coparasitism, Copulate, Copulation, Copulatory Bursa, Copulatory Ducts, Copulatory Organ, Copulatory Sac, Cord, Cordate, Cordiform, Core Temperature, Coremiform, Coriaceo-Reticulate, Coriaceous, Coriarious, Corinnoidea, Corneous, Corniculate, Corniculus (Corniculi), Corniform, Cornu (Cornua), Cornua, Coronal Plane (Frontal Plane), Coronary, Corpora, Corpora Adiposa, Corpus, Corpus Adiposum, Corridor Dispersal Route, Corrugated (Corrugate), Cortex, Cortical, Corticate, Corticiform, Corticinus, Corticolous, Corvinus, Coscinoid, Cosmiotaxy, Cosmochthonioidea, Cosmopolitan, Cosmotropical, Costate, Costella (Costellae), Costellate, Costiform, Costula, Costulate, Costulatus, Coterminous, Cotyla, Cotyliform, Cotyloid, Cotyloid, Countershading, Courtship, Cowled, Coxa, Coxae, Coxa Cava, Coxal Cavity, Coxal Fields, Coxal Glands, Coxapodite (Coxopodite), Coxisternal Plate, Coxisternal Seta, Coxisternum, Coxotrochanteral Joint, Crena, Crenate, Crenation, Crenature, Crenicolous, Crenophilous, Crenulate, Crepera, Crepuscular, Crescent, Crescentic, Crescentiform, Crest, Cribellate, Cribellum, Cribrate, Cribriform/Cribrose, Cribrum, Criocone, Crispate, Crista, Crista Metopica, Cristate, Cristiform, Cristiform, Cristula, Cristulate, Croceous, Crocus, Crochet (Crotchet), Cronism, Crook, Crotchet, Crotonioidea, Cruciato-Complicatus, Cruciform, Crura, Crus, Crusta, Cryophilic, Crypsis, Crypt, Cryptic, Cryptic Coloration, Crypto, Cryptobiosis, Cryptofauna (Phytalfauna), Cryptorhesis, Cryptosphere, Cryptostigmata, Cryptozoa, Cryptozoic, Cryptozoology, Crypts, Crystalline, Crystalloid, Ctenidia, Cteniform, Ctenizoidea, Ctenoid, Ctenose, Cucullus, Cuirass, Cultellate, Cultrate (Cultriform), Culus, Cumulate, Cumulus (Cumuli), Cunaxid, Cuneate, Cuneiform, Cup Shaped, Cupola Organ, Cupreous, Cupulate, Cupule, Cupuliform, Cursorial, Curvate, Cusp, Cuspidate, Cuspules, Custodite, Cutaneous, Cuticle, Cuticular, Cuticular Lobes, Cuticular Ornamentatio, Cuticular Pores, Cuticularization, Cuticulin, Cyaneous, Cyanescent, Cyanic, Cyanogenic, Cyanophil, Cyathiform, Cyclamen Mite, Cyclical Variation, Cyclopean, Cyclopic, Cydariform, Cylindraceous, Cylindrical, Cylindroconic, Cymbaeremaeoidea, Cymbiform, Cymbium, Cyphophthalmi, Cyrtauchenioidea, Cyrtoconic, Cyrtoconoid
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Dactyl, Dactyloid, Dactylopodite, Daddy-Longlegs, Dagger Mark, Damaeoidea, De Novo, ‘Dear Enemy’ Phenomenon, Death Feigning (Tonic Immobility, Thanatosis), Death Point, Deaurate, Decameros, Deciduous, Declinate, Declivous (Declivity, Declivitous), Decollate, Decorticate, Decrepitans, Decumbent, Decurrent, Decurved, Decussate, Decussation, Dedifferentiation, Defaecation, Deferent, Deficient, Definitive Host, Definitive Reservoir, Deflected, Deflex, Degenerate, Degeneration, Dehiscence, Deimatic (Dymantic) Behavior, Deinopidae (Dinopidae), Delamination, Deleterious, Delimitation, Deliquesce, Delitescence, Delomorphic, Deltoid, Deme, Demersal, Demodicidae, Demoid, Denatant, Dendritic/Dendriform, Dendrocolous, Dendroid (Dendriform), Dendrophilous, Dens, Dentate, Dentatelirate, Dentate-Serrate, Dentate-Sinuate, Denticle, Denticulate, Dentiform, Dentigerous Ridges, Denudate, Denude, Depauperate, Dependent, Deplanate, Deplanatus, Depressed, Depressor Muscle, Depuration, Derived Character, Derma, Dermis (Cornium), Dermal, Dermal Branchiae, Dermal Glands, Dermanyssidae, Dermanyssina, Dermanyssoidea, Dermatoid, Dermatoskeleton, Dermatozoon (Dermozoon), Dermecos, Dermoskeleton, Dermozoon, Desclerotization, Desectus, Deserticolous, Desmoid, Desquamination, Destitutus, Determinate, Detonans, Detritus, Detrorse, Detumescence, Deutogyne, Deutonymph/Deuteronymph (Hypopus), Deutosternal Denticles, Deutosternal Gutter (Deutosternal Groove, Hypognathal Groove, Subcapitular Groove), Deutosternum, Deutovum, Developmental Homeostasis, Dexiotropic, Dextrad, Dextral, Dextro-Caudad, Dextro-Cephalad, Dextrorse, Di-, Diactinal, Diagnosis, Diagnostic, Diapause, Diaphanous, Diaphragm, Diarthrophallina, Diarthric, Diarthrosis, Diarticular, Diatropism, Diaulic, Diauxic Growth, Diaxial, Diaxon, Dicellate, Dicerous, Dichoid, Dichoidy, Dichopatric, Dichoptic, Dichotomous, Dichotomy, Dichroism, Dichromatic, Dichromatism, Dicoelous, Dicondylar, Dictynidae, Dictynoidea, Didactyl, Diductor Muscle, Didymous, Diecdysis, Diecious, Diel, Diffracted, Diffraction Colors, Diffuse, Diffuse Sensitivity, Diffusion Tracheae, Digametic, Digeny, Digest, Digestion, Digestive Tract, Digitated, Digitiform, Digitule, Digitus (Digiti), Digitus Fixus, Dilacerate, Dilate, Dilator, Dimeric (Dimerous), Dimidiate, Dimorphism, Dioecious, Dioestrus, Dionycha, Dionychopodes, Dionychous, Dioptrate, Dioptric, Diphygenetic, Diploe, Diploid, Diploid Parthenogenesis, Diplostichous, Dipluroidea, Dipneumonous, Direct Competition, Direct Eyes, Directional Sense, Directive Coloration, Disarticulate, Disassortive Mating, Disc, Disk, Disciform, Discleritous, Discodactylous, Discoid, Discolor, Discolor, Discrepant, Discrete, Discrimination, Diserotization, Disjugal Furrow/Plane, Disjunct, Disjunctus, Disk, Dislocate, Dispersal, Dispersal Barrier, Dispersal Mechanism, Disperses, Displacement Behavior, Display, Disruptive Coloration, Disruptive Selection, Dissected, Disseminule, Dissepiment, Dissilient, Dissimulation, Distad, Distal, Distance Receptor, Distich, Distitarsus, Distomesad, Distomesal, Distychus, Disuse Hypothesis, Ditrematous, Ditypic, Diurnal, Diurnal Eyes, Diurnal Rhythm, Divaricate, Divaricator, Divaricators, Divergent, Divergent Adaptation, Diverse, Diversity Index, Diverticulum, Divided Dorsal Shield, Divisions Of Year, Dixenous, Dolabriform (Dolabrate), Doliform (Doliioform), Domatium, Dorsad, Dorsal, Dorsal Aspect, Dorsal Groove, Dorsal Hexagon, Dorsal Lyrifissure, Dorsal Scape, Dorsal Shield, Dorsal Vessel, Dorsal View, Dorsiferous, Dorsigerous, Dorsilateral, Dorsimeson, Dorsiventral, Dorsocaudad, Dorsocentral, Dorsolateral, Dorsomedian, Dorsomesal, Dorsomeson, Dorsopleural Line, Dorso-Sejugal Suture/Groove, Dorsoventral, Dorsoventral (Dorsiventral), Dorsulum, Dorsum, Drag Line, Draw-Thread, Drepaniform/Drepanoid, Dromotropic, Duct, Ductus Deferens, Ductus Ejaculatorius (Ejaculatory Duct), Duplex Setae, Duplicity, Duplivincular, Durus, Duty Factor, Dusky, Dwarf Males, Dymatic Coloration, Dysderidae, Dysderoidea, Dyspnoi.