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What does harvestman mean?

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Noun
  1. A field-worker who works to gather in the harvest.
  2. An order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones.
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The hapless harvestman joins a long list of egregious offenders.
After analyzing the DNA of a Florida harvestman, Metasiro americanus, the scientists found that it was not related to other North American species.
It is thought that their relative abundance at harvesttime and the scythelike or rakelike appearance of their legs may account for the common name harvestman.
It was only the next day that the largest harvestman came home on seven legs.
In one species of harvestman in Panama it is the males, rather than the females, that take care of the young, a very rare phenomenon.
He had not47 lived long enough in the meadow to understand all that the harvestman meant.

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