Arachidic acid
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 40 O 2 , obtained from peanut oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants, plastics, and waxes.
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- Arachis oil
. Historical Examples To cheapen this, peanut oil (arachis oil) may entirely replace the olive oil, or about 20 per cent. Soap-Making Manual E. G. Thomssen The “cold-drawn” arachis oil (pea-nut or earth-nut oil) has a pleasant flavour, resembling that of kidney beans. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
- Arachne
a Lydian woman who challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was changed into a spider for her presumption. Historical Examples The model so long sought in vain he had found in Ledscha, who in so many respects resembled Arachne. Arachne, Complete Georg Ebers Arachne, humiliated by the blow, and unable to avenge it, hanged […]
- Arachnid
any wingless, carnivorous arthropod of the class Arachnida, including spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, and daddy-longlegs, having a body divided into two parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen, and having eight appendages and no antennae. Compare . belonging or pertaining to the arachnids. Contemporary Examples The scorpion, a Heterometrus spinifer, is completely edible, despite the arachnid […]