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Definition of Araneae
1. Noun. Spiders.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Arachnida, Class Arachnida
Member holonyms: Spider, Argiopidae, Family Argiopidae, Orb-weaver, Family Theridiidae, Theridiidae, Family Theraphosidae, Theraphosidae, Family Lycosidae, Lycosidae, Ctenizidae, Family Ctenizidae
Derivative terms: Araneidal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Araneae
Literary usage of Araneae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"Oviposition and the Constitution of the Egg. The Araneae build nests or prepare
cocoons for their eggs, and usually watch over them. ..."
2. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"... the Araneae are important, and the more interesting, because up to the present
we have had almost no information concerning this portion of the fauna of ..."
3. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"(9) The first pair of maxillae is Changed, with the Araneae, into very long ...
The Araneae have this peculiarity, that their large oral cavity has a groove ..."
4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"Examining the araneae alone, which are far better represented in the tertiaries
than are the other suborders, we find a very large number of extinct genera. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"other rudimentary sternites; ax, AD«^ Order 3. Araneae (figs. ... Eresidae (Eresus)
Remarks on the Araneae. ..."
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