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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)- An example of a spider is the character Charlotte from the story Charlotte's Web.
- An example of a spider is the black widow.
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See spider in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- any of an order (Araneae) of small, chiefly land arachnids having a body composed of a cephalothorax bearing the legs and an abdomen bearing two or more pairs of spinnerets that spin the silk threads from which are made nests, cocoons for the eggs, or webs for trapping insects
- ☆ a cast-iron frying pan, orig. one with legs for use on a hearth
- any of various devices or frameworks with several leglike extensions
Origin: ME spithre < OE spithra < *spinthra < spinnan, to spin
See spider in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- Any of numerous arachnids of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax bearing eight legs, two poison fangs, and two feelers and an unsegmented abdomen bearing several spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.
- One that resembles a spider, as in appearance, character, or movement.
- New England, Upper Northern, & South Atlantic U.S. See frying pan. See Regional Note at frying pan.
- A trivet.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English spither
Origin: , from Old English spīthra; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots
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