harvestman

== English == === Etymology === From harvest +‎ -man. (sense 2): There are various hypotheses and folk etymologies for why the arachnids are called harvestmen, but the most likely explanation is the shape of their legs, which resemble sickles or scythes. === Noun === harvestman (plural harvestmen) A male harvester; any harvester (person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time). Hypernyms: harvester < person Coordinate terms: (machine) harvester; (person) gatherer, hunter-gatherer Near-synonym: carter An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones; any individual of this order. Synonyms: daddy longlegs, harvest spider, grandfather-graybeard, harry-longlegs, shepherd spider Hypernyms: arachnid < critter < creature; see also Opiliones § Hypernyms ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== (person who harvests crops): (nonspider arachnid): === References === Opiliones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Opiliones on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Opiliones on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo, Machado, Glauco & Giribet, Gonzalez (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press →ISBN pp. 2,3