a. Of, or pertaining to, arachnology. Arachnologist, a student of, or proficient in, arachnology. Arachnology [f. Gr. ἀράχνη spider + -(O)LOGY.], the department of Zoology relating to spiders or the Arachnida generally.
1861. Blackwall, Spiders, I. Pref. p. v. The existing state of arachnological science.
1876. Kirby & Spence, Entomol. (1843), II. 277. The English Arachnologists—may I coin this term?
1880. Nature, XXI. 273/2. Mr. Pickard-Cambridge’s reputation as an arachnologist is a sufficient guarantee that any work written by him will be carefully executed.
1861. Blackwall, Spiders, I. Introd. 5. Dr. Lister and the earlier systematic writers on arachnology.
