noun
- plural of arachnology; the scientific study of arachnids, including spiders, scorpions, and mites.
Usage: technical; scientific field
Examples
- The university offers several courses in arachnologies for graduate students interested in entomology.
- Recent advances in arachnologies have revealed new species of jumping spiders in tropical regions.
- She specialized in arachnologies and spent years researching venom composition in scorpions.
- The conference brought together leading experts in arachnologies from around the world.
- His dissertation focused on the behavioral arachnologies of web-building spiders.