| NOUN | animal | barn spider, Araneus cavaticus | an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily |
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| Meaning | An orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily. | |
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| Example | "the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book 'Charlotte's Web'" | |
| Synonym | Araneus cavaticus | |
| Member of | Aranea, genus Aranea, Araneus, genus Araneus | A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders |
| Broader | spider | predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body |
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