spider
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | arachnid, arachnoid, |
| definition | : | air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | orb-weaving spider, |
| definition | : | a spider that spins a circular (or near circular) web (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | araneus cavaticus, barn spider, |
| definition | : | an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | black widow, latrodectus mactans, |
| definition | : | venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tarantula, |
| definition | : | large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | trap-door spider, |
| definition | : | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid (noun.animal) |
2. a skillet made of cast iron (noun.artifact)
3. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine (noun.communication)
4. 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 (noun.animal)
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