scorpions hell (skor pionshel)

A gastropod of the family Strombidæ and genus Pteroceras, distinguished by the development of long tubular or channeled spines from the outer lip of the aper ture. About a dozen species are known, some a foot long, all inhabitants of the Indian seas and the Pacific, as P. lamb is. scorpion-spider (skor'pi-on-spi"dėr), n. Any arachnidan of the order Pedi palpi; a whip scorpion: a sort of false scorpion. Those of the family Thelyphoni dæ, with a long slender whip-like post abdomen, resemble scorpions very closely in superficial appearance. The likene of the Phryni dæ, which have merely a button-like post abdomen, is le striking. See cuts under Phrynidæ and Pedipalpi. Scorpion-shell ( Pteroceras lamb is).