vinegaroon

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English

A vinegaroon

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vinagrón, from vinagre (“vinegar”) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix). Influenced by vinegar.

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Noun

vinegaroon (plural vinegaroons)

  1. A whip scorpion (arachnid of order Thelyphonida), which when threatened may eject a liquid containing acetic acid.
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
      I have found dead vinegaroons […] kille by a harvester ant sting successfuly placed in the intersegmental membranes of the vinegaroon's crushing, claw-like pedipalps[.]

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