SPIDER

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exception of air and sea colonization. As of 2008, at least 43,678 spider species, and 109 families have been recorded by taxonomists; however, there has been confusion within the scientific community as to how all these families should be classified, as evidenced by the over 20 different classifications that have ...

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spider

Noun

  1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
  2. A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
  3. A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
  4. A spindly person.
  5. A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
  6. 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 bridge.
  7. A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.
  8. Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle.
  9. A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached
  10. Heroin (street drug).
  11. Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

Verb

  1. to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
    ''The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.


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