The definition of a spider is a small creature with eight legs and two fangs that makes webs, nests and cocoons out of the silk that it produces.
(noun)See spider in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME spithre < OE spithra < *spinthra < spinnan, to spin
See spider in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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Origin:
Origin: Middle English spither
Origin: , from Old English spīthra; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots
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