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The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water, especially the large American species (Dolomedes lanceolatus) which runs rapidly on the surface of water; -- called also raft spider.
Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
Alt. of Spider's web
An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider.
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Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina.
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Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).
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One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.
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The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
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The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
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Infested by spiders; cobwebbed.
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A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
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A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.
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The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).
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A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.
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The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.
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Like a spider.
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A division of Arachnida including those spiders which have four lungs, or pulmonary sacs. It includes the bird spiders (Mygale) and the trapdoor spiders. See Mygale.
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The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
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