Araneae

Thesaurus

Noun

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Araneae - spiders Araneida, order Araneae, order Araneidaanimal order - the order of animalsArachnida, class Arachnida - a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wingsspider - 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 preyArgiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver - spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distributionfamily Theridiidae, Theridiidae - a family of comb-footed spidersfamily Theraphosidae, Theraphosidae - large tropical spiders; tarantulasfamily Lycosidae, Lycosidae - wolf spidersCtenizidae, family Ctenizidae - large burrowing spiders