meaning of scorpion

1. Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
2. The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
3. The scorpene.
4. A painful scourge.
5. A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.
6. An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
7. Scorpion Twenty tools that can be used to construct specialised programming environments. The Scorpion Project was started by Prof. Richard Snodgrass arizona. edu> as an outgrowth of the SoftLab Project which produced the IDL Toolkit that he started when he was at the University of North Carolina. The Scorpion Project is directed by him at the University of Arizona and by Karen Shannon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Version 6. 0 runs on Sun-3, Sun-4, VAX, Decstation, Iris, Sequent, HP9000. See also Candle. ftp://cs. arizona. edu/scorpion/. Mailing list: info-scorpion-request@cs. arizona. edu. E-mail: arizona. edu>.
8. arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous sting

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