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Definition of spider:
Synonyms:
add-on, assembler, bird of passage, assembler, water, beetle, hermit, grass, bird, jumping, applet, hunting, trapdoor, violin back, compiler, browser, spinner, crab, wanderer, bloodsucker, harvestman, roamer, computer program, rover, brown recluse, brown, client, wolf, bot, garden, diadem, architecture, burrowing, bootstrap program.
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insect (part of speech: noun)
- chinch,
- bookworm,
- katydid,
- louse,
- wasp,
- chigger,
- blowfly,
- daddy longlegs,
- bee,
- horntail,
- housefly,
- mosquito,
- bedbug,
- ant,
- fly,
- flea,
- cricket,
- tick,
- termite,
- earwig,
- midge,
- gadfly,
- fruit fly,
- black widow,
- tarantula,
- grasshopper,
- firefly,
- scorpion,
- horsefly,
- aphid,
- botfly,
- tiger moth,
- mantis,
- June bug,
- moth,
- roach,
- praying mantis,
- nit,
- horney,
- may fly,
- boll weevil,
- ladybug,
- millipede,
- deer fly,
- centipede,
- stinkbug,
- cicada,
- dung beetle,
- blowfly,
- bluebottle,
- scarab,
- cockroach,
- mite,
- gnat,
- yellow jacket,
- tsetse fly,
- butterfly,
- dragonfly,
- silverfish,
- locust
Usage examples:
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Oh well, she replied, tossing her head, Mr. Bruce's spider made seven attempts before he succeeded.
- "Patty's Success", Carolyn Wells. -
I suppose we're alone here, eh, Spider?
- "The Adventures of Jimmie Dale", Frank L. Packard. -
Here and there one lay sprawled with limbs curled like a dead spider, or else flung out at a stiff length of agony.
- "The Heart's Highway A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeeth Century", Mary E. Wilkins.