ARANEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Araneae mean? 

• ARANEAE (noun)
  The noun ARANEAE has 1 sense:

1. spiders

  Familiarity information: ARANEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARANEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Araneae; Araneida; order Araneae; order Araneida

Hypernyms ("Araneae" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("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)