spider
Other forms: spiders
A spider is a small, eight-legged animal. Some people scream when they see a spider, but most of the time spiders won’t hurt you.
You might think of spiders as falling into the category of "bugs," but they're not insects at all—spiders, like ticks and scorpions, are arachnids. Most spiders are harmless to people and helpful in controlling insect populations. Spiders feed on bugs that get caught in their sticky webs. The Germanic root of spider means "spinner." If you are terrified of spiders, you may suffer from arachnophobia, from the Latin arachnid, "spider," and phobia, "fear."
Definitions of spider
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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 preytypes:orb-weaving spidera spider that spins a circular (or near circular) webAraneus cavaticus, barn spideran orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web dailyLatrodectus mactans, black widowvenomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomentarantulalarge hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bitestrap-door spiderAmerican spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lidEuropean wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula, tarantulalarge southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)
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a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search enginesynonyms: wanderertype of:computer program, computer programme, program, programme(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
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a skillet made of cast iron
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