Attercopus

Translingual

Etymology

From Northern England English attercop (“spider”), suffixed with a faux-Latinate -us m, due to the arachnid's spider-like appearance. Further from Middle English attercoppe and Old English ātorcoppe f.

Proper noun

Attercopus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the order Uraraneida – an extinct species of arachnid.

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