araneida

from The Century Dictionary.

• A superfamily and subgroup of the class Arachnida, now usually called an order, containing the spiders as distinguished from the mites, scorpions, and other arachnidans: practically synonymous and conterminous with Dimerosomata or Pulmotrachearia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) See araneina.

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• noun spiders