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spider

  • noun
  • spīʹdə

Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

Other meanings

  1. A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

  2. A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.

A kind of

  • arachnid

Kinds of spider

  • barn spider
  • garden spider
  • comb-footed spider
  • black widow
  • tarantula
  • wolf spider
  • trap-door spider

Example sentences

  • “The spider hung on a thread and danced.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “They thought spiders might sense and use electrostatic fields in the air.”

    Tatoeba · Cangarejo · CC0

Word history

From Old English "spīþra".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “spider” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.