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Definition of Aranea
1. Noun. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Argiopidae, Family Argiopidae, Orb-weaver
Member holonyms: Araneus Cavaticus, Barn Spider, Aranea Diademata, Garden Spider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aranea
Literary usage of Aranea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Have aranea, the spider, araneus, the ranny, and erina. ceus, the hedgehog, some
common etymon, perhaps one referring to their common insectivorous nature ? ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Aranea. The true Araneae, which we at first designated by the generic appellation
of Tegenaria, retained by Walckenaer, and to which we add his ..."
3. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"As I have not found this apophysis in other palpi, I do not consider it a
fundamental part. THE PALPUS OF Aranea GIGAS.— The preceding species ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"On Aranea lobata, Pallas (A. sericea, Oliv.}. By T. THORELL*. ... 14,15) under
the name of Aranea lobata^ and of which arachnologists have hitherto ..."
5. Clinical Therapeutics by Temple S. Hoyne (1880)
"The Cubensis also causes that exquisite sensitiveness, hut I think it is generally
dependent upon a deeper seated affection than when the Aranea is ..."
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