araneid

noun

ara·​ne·​id

ə-ˈrā-nē-əd,

ˌa-rə-ˈnē-,

-ˌid

plural araneids

: a spider of the family Araneidae : orb weaver

Many of them were orb weavers of the family Araneidae. Whatever was fatal for the birds seemed to be highly beneficial for the araneids.

—David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo, 1996

broadly : spider sense 1

araneid adjective

araneid spiders

an araneid web

araneidal

¦a-rə-¦nē-ə-dᵊl

adjective

araneidan

¦a-rə-¦nē-ə-dᵊn

adjective or noun

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Araneida

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

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