Scorpion

Noun

 * 1) Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end.

Thesaurus
arachnid, arthropod, beetle, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, diplopod, fly, harvestman, hexapod, insect, larva, maggot, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, spider, tarantula, tick

Etymology
From Old (and modern) French scorpion, from Latin scorpio, ultimately from σκορπίος:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܥܩܪܒܐ (‘eqarbā, ‘eqarbo)
 * Hebrew: עקרבא (‘eqarbā, ‘eqarbo)
 * Armenian: կարիճ (karič̣)
 * Bosnian: škorpija, škorpion
 * Catalan: escorpí
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 蝎子 (hézi)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skorpio
 * Filipino: alakdan
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Georgian: მორიელი (morieli)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बिच्छू (bičhū), बिच्छी (bičhī)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:


 * Isthmus Zapotec: ngolaxiñe
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蠍/蝎 (さそり, sasori)
 * Korean: 전갈 (jeongal)
 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: шкорпија, акреп
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: विंचू (vinčū)
 * Mongolian: хилэнцэт хорхой (xilencet xorxoi)
 * Nahuatl: colōtl
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Slovak: škorpión
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: nge (noun 9/10)
 * Tamil: தேள் (tēḷ)
 * Telugu: తేలు (taelu)
 * Thai: (maeng bpòng),  (prítjìk)
 * Turkish:

Derived terms

 * scorpionate
 * scorpion kick
 * scorpionlike

Noun

 * 1) scorpion

Anagrams

 * picorons

Noun

 * 1) scorpion

Etymology
scorpion