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BARN SPIDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barn spider mean?
• BARN SPIDER (noun)
The noun BARN SPIDER has 1 sense:
1. an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily
Familiarity information: BARN SPIDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Araneus cavaticus; barn spider
Context example:
the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book 'Charlotte's Web'
Hypernyms ("barn spider" is a kind of...):
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)
Holonyms ("barn spider" is a member of...):
Aranea; Araneus; genus Aranea; genus Araneus (a genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders)
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