Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of true spiders, founded by Walckenaer, giving name to the family Agalenidæ.

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  • _agalena_ spider, which dispenses with the winding-sheet of the field species -- _epeira_ and _argiope_.

    My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

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