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plural vinegaroons
A whip scorpion (arachnid of order Thelyphonida), which when threatened may eject a liquid containing acetic acid. quotations examples
I have found dead vinegaroons […] kille by a harvester ant sting successfuly placed in the intersegmental membranes of the vinegaroon's crushing, claw-like pedipalps[.]
2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 113