Definition of harvestman in English:
harvestman
nounPlural harvestmenˈhɑːvɪs(t)mənˈhɑrvəstmən
An arachnid with a globular body and very long thin legs, typically living in leaf litter and on tree trunks.
Order Opiliones: three suborders
Example sentencesExamples
- While some species may be better at hunting than others, most harvestmen scavenge dead plants and animals, only occasionally catching relatively easy prey, such as small caterpillars.
- In one species of harvestman in Panama it is the males, rather than the females, that take care of the young, a very rare phenomenon.
- Cave crickets and harvestmen or ‘daddy longlegs’ that live inside the caves during the day and feed outside the caves at night contribute important nutrients to the cave ecosystem.
- The 400-million-year-old fossil organ belongs to a harvestmen or daddy longlegs, a non-web-spinning arachnid, related to mites and ticks.
- I'm sure it wasn't a harvestman, since it had a web.
Definition of harvestman in US English:
harvestman
nounˈhɑrvəstmənˈhärvəstmən
another term for daddy longlegs (sense 1 of the noun)
Example sentencesExamples
- While some species may be better at hunting than others, most harvestmen scavenge dead plants and animals, only occasionally catching relatively easy prey, such as small caterpillars.
- I'm sure it wasn't a harvestman, since it had a web.
- In one species of harvestman in Panama it is the males, rather than the females, that take care of the young, a very rare phenomenon.
- Cave crickets and harvestmen or ‘daddy longlegs’ that live inside the caves during the day and feed outside the caves at night contribute important nutrients to the cave ecosystem.
- The 400-million-year-old fossil organ belongs to a harvestmen or daddy longlegs, a non-web-spinning arachnid, related to mites and ticks.