Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any spider of the large group Orbitelæ: distinguished from tube-weaver, tunnel-weaver, etc.
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- noun spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution
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Examples
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Anxious to quash fears that the absent arachnid may be marauding around the space station, Nasa managers insisted that the second orb-weaver was not exactly lost, it just couldn't be found.
Escaped Mutant Spiders Threaten Astronauts - Again - NASA Watch 2008
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Anxious to quash fears that the absent arachnid may be marauding around the space station, Nasa managers insisted that the second orb-weaver was not exactly lost, it just couldn't be found.
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"Nasa managers insisted that the second orb-weaver was not exactly lost, it just couldn ‚ Äôt be found."
Escaped Mutant Spiders Threaten Astronauts - Again - NASA Watch 2008
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Anxious to quash fears that the absent arachnid may be marauding around the space station, Nasa managers insisted that the second orb-weaver was not exactly lost, it just couldn't be found.
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Anxious to quash fears that the absent arachnid may be marauding around the space station, Nasa managers insisted that the second orb-weaver was not exactly lost, it just couldn't be found.
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This beautiful orb-weaver spider is basically taking flies and crickets and transforming them in water in the abdomen and what comes out is this material that's five times stronger ounce for ounce than steel.
The Man of the Hour 2007
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Female giant golden orb-weaver spiders can grow to a whopping 4 or 5 inches in diameter although males tend to be less than a quarter that size.
Wired Top Stories Lisa Grossman 2011
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"This giant fossil orb-weaver provides evidence of predation on medium to large insects, well known from the Daohugou beds, and would have played an important role in the evolution of these insects," according to researchers.
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To test spider silk's usefulness, first Wendt and her colleagues essentially milked golden silk orb-weaver spiders by stroking their silk glands and spooling up the silk fibers that came out.
FOXNews.com 2011
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He and his team took the gene that encodes dragline silk from an orb-weaver spider and placed it among the DNA that prompts milk production in the udders.
The Guardian World News Adam Rutherford 2012
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