Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any spider which spins a kind of silk; especially, Nephila plumipes of the southern United States, which spins copiously, and is also notable for the unusual disparity of the sexes in size.
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Examples
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Anyhow, yesterday, some delicious food with a family of strong women, and a long article mixing silk-spider genes with goats.
Just Can't Seem to Stop, by Ms. Prolific barbylon 2002
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Anyhow, yesterday, some delicious food with a family of strong women, and a long article mixing silk-spider genes with goats.
Just Can't Seem to Stop, by Ms. Prolific barbylon 2002
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Much attention is given to his new species of _Epeira_, or silk-spider.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Looking for food one day, I came close to the home of a silk-spider who was about to make a new web.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868
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Amongst the insects was the silk-spider, a large arachnid of sulphur-yellow tint, with three black transverse bars.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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