| banana spider |
see "Brazilian wandering spider." |
| Brazilian wandering spider |
any of a family of highly venomous, quick-moving, and aggressive spiders native to the rainforests of Brazil, also known as the banana spider for the frequency with which members of this family are found in bunches of bananas. |
| brown recluse spider |
a highly poisonous, medium-sized brown spider that has a dark, violin-shaped mark on its body. |
| dock spider |
see "fisher spider." |
| fisher spider |
any of a family of nursery-web spiders that have the ability to skate across and dive beneath the surface of water, also called a dock spider. |
| nursery-web spider |
any of the species of spiders, the females of which build a web for their young and stand guard next to it. |
| red spider |
any of various small red spiderlike mites that feed on vegetation. |
| spider monkey |
any of several tropical American monkeys that have long spidery limbs, rudimentary or no thumbs, and a long prehensile tail. |
| spider plant |
a plant of the lily family, with long, narrow, sometimes white-streaked leaves, commonly grown as a houseplant. |
| spider web |
a web constructed by spiders to trap prey, made from very fine filaments of silk secreted from their abdomens. |
| trap-door spider |
any of several spiders that construct a silk-lined nest covered by a hinged lid resembling a trap door. |
| wolf spider |
a small- to medium-sized spider that hunts its prey rather than using a web. |