Scorpion
noun
A small creature with a long body, eight legs and a tail that has a poisonous sting.
He was stung by a scorpion in the desert.
Often appears as...
- scorpion sting
- scorpion tail
noun
A type of cocktail usually containing rum, lime juice, and fruit juice.
We're serving scorpion cocktails at the party tonight.
Often appears as...
- scorpion cocktail
- scorpion drink
Usage tips
Colloquial,Idiomatic
noun
A type of yoga pose.
She's very flexible, she can even do the scorpion pose.
Often appears as...
- scorpion pose
- scorpion stretch
noun
A type of whip with multiple tails, used for punishment in some cultures.
In ancient Rome, a scorpion was used for punishment.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
noun
A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Libra and Sagittarius.
Scorpio, represented as a scorpion, is a zodiac sign.
Often appears as...
- scorpio the scorpion
- scorpion constellation
noun
A small creature with a long body, eight legs and a tail that has a poisonous sting.
He was stung by a scorpion in the desert.
Often appears as...
- scorpion sting
- scorpion tail
noun
A type of cocktail usually containing rum, lime juice, and fruit juice.
We're serving scorpion cocktails at the party tonight.
Often appears as...
- scorpion cocktail
- scorpion drink
Usage tips
Colloquial,Idiomatic
noun
A type of yoga pose.
She's very flexible, she can even do the scorpion pose.
Often appears as...
- scorpion pose
- scorpion stretch
noun
A type of whip with multiple tails, used for punishment in some cultures.
In ancient Rome, a scorpion was used for punishment.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
noun
A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Libra and Sagittarius.
Scorpio, represented as a scorpion, is a zodiac sign.
Often appears as...
- scorpio the scorpion
- scorpion constellation
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Desert Danger
Scorpions are often found in deserts, implying danger or pain.
Survival shows often warn about the risks of scorpions.
Pro Tip 2/3Use Caution
Refer to scorpions when emphasizing caution in a risky situation.
Move carefully, as if avoiding scorpions underfoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Fear
Used metaphorically, 'scorpion' can express a treacherous person or situation.
He's a scorpion, always backstabbing his friends.
Pro Tip 1/3Desert Danger
Scorpions are often found in deserts, implying danger or pain.
Survival shows often warn about the risks of scorpions.
Pro Tip 2/3Use Caution
Refer to scorpions when emphasizing caution in a risky situation.
Move carefully, as if avoiding scorpions underfoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Fear
Used metaphorically, 'scorpion' can express a treacherous person or situation.
He's a scorpion, always backstabbing his friends.
Pro Tip 1/3Desert Danger
Scorpions are often found in deserts, implying danger or pain.
Survival shows often warn about the risks of scorpions.
Pro Tip 2/3Use Caution
Refer to scorpions when emphasizing caution in a risky situation.
Move carefully, as if avoiding scorpions underfoot.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Fear
Used metaphorically, 'scorpion' can express a treacherous person or situation.
He's a scorpion, always backstabbing his friends.
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Discovering Wildlife in...
So that's where it likes to hunt all of its invertebrates. It's very quick, and it's also got a couple of defence mechanisms and threat displays so it can raise up its abdomen a bit like a scorpion, it does a scorpion like pose, and that's to intimidate its predators. It also, if it needs to, can spray out a foul smelling liquid out of its abdomen.
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
scorpion not by looking but by just like feeling the vibrations by its whiskers that makes it a superhero it's a very territorial animal it's a very aggressive animal actually and rather like a wolf it protects or it defends its territory by howling at the moon so the little creature walks up onto a
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Nizar Ibrahim: How we...
You have to deal with sandstorms and snakes and scorpions, and it's very difficult to find good fossils there. But our hard work paid off. We discovered many incredible specimens. There's the largest dinosaur bone that had ever been found in this part of the Sahara.
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Scorpion's Worst...
available meerkats will also dine on anything they can overpower beetles spiders even lizards and small rodents but for a meerkat nothing beats the crunchy goodness of a freshly killed scorpion and who can argue although well a little ketchup might help
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Spotting the camel...
well the commonly known as camel spiders or some spiders scientifically they are called Soloff ug solitudes arachnids that are distantly related to scorpions spiders mites and ticks they're little known as they are rarely seen generally
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Danica Patrick Eats a...
--this yellow kind of weird stuff and really pungent. It stays with you forever. But if you cook them and you barbecue them up, then it's perfect. Thank God for the fire because that's going to make the scorpion taste just like char
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Cannibal Scorpions vs....
they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the
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The epic of Gilgamesh,...
He passed scorpion people and groves of gemstone trees, travelled beneath the mountains and outran the rising sun, until he finally came to the end of the world, where he found a bar.
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Crayfish Turf Wars PIPE...
more than you bargained for the European yellowtail scorpion is rarely lethal we won't want to lie around in this gutter after a skinful there are now three separate colonies of
Video examples
Cannibal Scorpions vs....
combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the other's armor and administers the fatal
Video examples
Discovering Wildlife in...
So that's where it likes to hunt all of its invertebrates. It's very quick, and it's also got a couple of defence mechanisms and threat displays so it can raise up its abdomen a bit like a scorpion, it does a scorpion like pose, and that's to intimidate its predators. It also, if it needs to, can spray out a foul smelling liquid out of its abdomen.
Video examples
Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
scorpion not by looking but by just like feeling the vibrations by its whiskers that makes it a superhero it's a very territorial animal it's a very aggressive animal actually and rather like a wolf it protects or it defends its territory by howling at the moon so the little creature walks up onto a
Video examples
Nizar Ibrahim: How we...
You have to deal with sandstorms and snakes and scorpions, and it's very difficult to find good fossils there. But our hard work paid off. We discovered many incredible specimens. There's the largest dinosaur bone that had ever been found in this part of the Sahara.
Video examples
Scorpion's Worst...
available meerkats will also dine on anything they can overpower beetles spiders even lizards and small rodents but for a meerkat nothing beats the crunchy goodness of a freshly killed scorpion and who can argue although well a little ketchup might help
Video examples
Spotting the camel...
well the commonly known as camel spiders or some spiders scientifically they are called Soloff ug solitudes arachnids that are distantly related to scorpions spiders mites and ticks they're little known as they are rarely seen generally
Video examples
Danica Patrick Eats a...
--this yellow kind of weird stuff and really pungent. It stays with you forever. But if you cook them and you barbecue them up, then it's perfect. Thank God for the fire because that's going to make the scorpion taste just like char
Video examples
Cannibal Scorpions vs....
they're attacking each other with such ferocity even though it looks like a combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the
Video examples
The epic of Gilgamesh,...
He passed scorpion people and groves of gemstone trees, travelled beneath the mountains and outran the rising sun, until he finally came to the end of the world, where he found a bar.
Video examples
Crayfish Turf Wars PIPE...
more than you bargained for the European yellowtail scorpion is rarely lethal we won't want to lie around in this gutter after a skinful there are now three separate colonies of
Video examples
Cannibal Scorpions vs....
combination wrestling match tango competition and advanced yoga class look at this amazing sight one scorpion finds the tiniest and the other's armor and administers the fatal
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Dominic Monaghan
Irish Actor
What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
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Robert Toombs
American Politician
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
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Jamie Anderson
American Athlete
I always go to yoga - I do core fusion and Vinyasa. My favorite poses are variations on the handstand and the scorpion. You have to use your whole body, it's physically and mentally challenging.
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Richard Virenque
Moroccan Athlete
He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.
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Chanakya
Indian Politician
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
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Clare Rewcastle Brown
British Journalist
As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.
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John Podhoretz
American Writer
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
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Rachel Hunter
New Zealander Model
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
Quote examples
Dominic Monaghan
Irish Actor
What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
Quote examples
Neri Oxman
American Architect
The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
Quote examples
Robert Toombs
American Politician
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Quote examples
David Ignatius
American Journalist
I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
Quote examples
Jamie Anderson
American Athlete
I always go to yoga - I do core fusion and Vinyasa. My favorite poses are variations on the handstand and the scorpion. You have to use your whole body, it's physically and mentally challenging.
Quote examples
Richard Virenque
Moroccan Athlete
He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.
Quote examples
Chanakya
Indian Politician
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Quote examples
Clare Rewcastle Brown
British Journalist
As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.
Quote examples
John Podhoretz
American Writer
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
Quote examples
Rachel Hunter
New Zealander Model
Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
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