Vin`e*gar*roon" (?), n. [Cf. Sp. vinagre vinegar.]

A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species (Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.

 

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