English > spider: 3 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey. |
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| Member of | Araneae, order Araneae, Araneida, order Araneida | spiders |
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| Narrower | barn spider, Araneus cavaticus | An orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily |
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| black and gold garden spider, Argiope aurantia | A widely distributed North American garden spider |
| black widow, Latrodectus mactans | venomous New World spider |
| comb-footed spider, theridiid | spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot |
| garden spider, Aranea diademata | A spider common in European gardens |
| orb-weaving spider | A spider that spins a circular (or near circular) web |
| tarantula | large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful / painful but not highly venomous bites |
| trap-door spider | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid |
| wolf spider, hunting spider | ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web |
| Broader | arachnid, arachnoid | air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs |
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| Spanish | araña, araneae |
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| Catalan | aranya |
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| Adjectives | spidery | relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida |
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