spider 
spi·der (spī′dər)
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
Etymology: ME spithre < OE spithra < *spinthra < spinnan, to spin
spider
n.
arachnid, spinner, harvestman, daddy longlegs.
Common spiders include: tarantula, black widow, garden, diadem, grass, trapdoor, crab, water, bird, brown, hermit, wolf, jumping, burrowing, hunting, violin back, brown recluse, daddy longlegs, harvestman.
See Also: Bot or Robot; Electronic Mail or Email; HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol); Spammers.
Converse of object
- funnel: Funnel web spiders have a flat web with a tunnel at one side where the spider lurks.
Preposition: in
- closet: Mark If homophobia is a sign of closet homosexuality, is arachnophobia a sign of being a spider in a closet?
Adjective modifier
- venomous: Ereshkigal's words crawled over Ishtar like a venomous spider.
- hairy: The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere.
- poisonous: Poisonous spiders may be lurking in the most innocent of places, so be careful where you put your hands and feet.
- recluse: For years, brown recluse spiders have been blamed for bites on humans and pets, but brown recluse spiders don't live here.
- giant: It's got everything from how two people can become a giant spider to the best way to make huge sticky lakes of blood.
- se: Site Map Creation The creation of a site map page enables SE spiders better crawling of your site.
Modifies a noun
- mite: Maintain humidity to avoid red spider mite by damping down with the hosepipe.
- crab: There were lots of spider crabs waiting to be picked up.
- monkey: The lack of thumbs in spider monkeys is an adaptation for swinging through the trees.
- naevus: He has a few spider naevi on his anterior chest wall.
- vein: Scientific research has not come up with all the reasons why spider veins occur.
- silk: Some spiders may consume it, for the protein in spider silk is not to be wasted.
Noun used with modifier
- tarantula: I owned a tarantula spider until it went to the big cobweb in the sky a few years ago.
- fen: In 1981 the fen raft spider became one of the 23 species of arthropod protected in Britain by the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
- wincy: They have also created a cute Nursery range with classics such as ' Twinkle Twinkle little star ' and ' Incy Wincy spider ' .
- incy: They have also created a cute Nursery range with classics such as ' Twinkle Twinkle little star ' and ' Incy Wincy spider ' .
- wolf: Occasional wolf spiders ( Pardosa sp. and Hogna sp.
- orb: One of our least cuddly animals, the golden orb spider has become a mother.
Then the law to him Is like a foul black cobweb to a spider; He makes it his dwelling, and a prison To entangle those shall feed him.
Spider, spider, spin Your register and let me sleep a little, Not now in order to end but to begin The task begun so often.
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?ö If design govern in a thing so small.
Browse dictionary entries near spider
- ‹ SPID
- ‹ spicy
- ‹ spiculum
- ‹ spicule
- ‹ spiculate
- ‹ spick-and-span
- ‹ spick
- ‹ spicery
- ‹ spicebush
- ‹ spiceberry
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