different between scorpion vs charybdotoxin

English

Alternative forms

• skorpion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English scorpioun, skorpioun, schorpion, schorpiun, partly from Old English s?orpio and partly from Anglo-Norman scorpïun, Old French scorpïon, escorpïon; all from Latin scorpio, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (skorpíos). The cheerleading move is so called because of the resemblance of the raised foot to a scorpion's stinger.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??.pi.?n/, /-p?.?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk??.pi.?n/

Noun

scorpion (plural scorpions)

1. Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting in the end.
2. (historical) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
3. (figuratively) A very spiteful or vindictive person.
4. A cheerleading move in which one foot is pulled back and held up with both hands while the performer stands on the other foot.
5. (obsolete, biblical) A whip with points like a scorpion's tail.

   Coordinate term: scourge

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• arachnid
• Scorpio

Further reading

• scorpion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scorpion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• scorpion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Latin scorpi?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??.pj??/

Noun

scorpion m (plural scorpions)

1. scorpion

Descendants

• ? Romanian: scorpion

Further reading

• “scorpion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• picorons

Middle English

Noun

scorpion

1. Alternative form of scorpioun

Norman

Etymology

From Old French scorpion, from Latin scorpi?, scorpi?nem, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skorpíos).

Noun

scorpion m (plural scorpions)

1. (Jersey) mole cricket

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French scorpion, from Latin scorpio, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skorpíos). Doublet of scorpie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skor?pjon/

Noun

scorpion m (plural scorpioni)

1. scorpion

Declension

English

Etymology

Blend of Charybdis +? toxin; along with scyllatoxin in the same scorpion's venom, it references the monsters Scylla and Charybdis of Ancient Greek mythology.

Noun

charybdotoxin (plural charybdotoxins)

1. (toxicology) An oligopeptide neurotoxin from the venom of a scorpion of the genus Leiurus.