trap-door spider

English Thesaurus

1. American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	spider,
definition	:	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)

member meronym	:	ctenizidae, family ctenizidae,
definition	:	large burrowing spiders (noun.animal)