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ORDER ARANEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiders
Synonyms:
Araneae; Araneida; order Araneae; order Araneida
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Araneae" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Araneae"):
spider (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)
Argiopidae; family Argiopidae; orb-weaver (spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution)
family Theridiidae; Theridiidae (a family of comb-footed spiders)
family Theraphosidae; Theraphosidae (large tropical spiders; tarantulas)
family Lycosidae; Lycosidae (wolf spiders)
Ctenizidae; family Ctenizidae (large burrowing spiders)
Holonyms ("order Araneae" is a member of...):
Arachnida; class Arachnida (a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings)
