Other forms: scorpions
A scorpion is a desert animal with big claws and a poisonous curved tail. A scorpion's sting, check your boots for scorpions, a black scorpion.
Of well over a thousand species only about twenty-five can kill a person. They glow blue-green under ultraviolet light and nobody is sure why. The mother carries her young on her back until their first moult.
1nounscorpionA desert animal with claws and a stinging tail.
“Always shake out your boots in the desert in case a scorpion has crawled inside.”
scorpion is an animal.
Latin scorpio comes from Greek skorpios, the name of the animal and of the constellation.
Middle English
scorpioun
English, today
scorpion
From Middle English scorpioun. From Middle English scorpioun, skorpioun, schorpion, schorpiun, partly from Old English sċorpio and partly from Anglo-Norman scorpïun, Old French scorpïon, escorpïon; all from Latin scorpiō, ultimately from Ancient Greek σκορπίος. The cheerleading move is so called because of the resemblance of the raised foot to a scorpion's stinger. Displaced native Old English þrōwend (“scorpion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA