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Definition of Araneid
1. Noun. (zoology) A spider; now specifically a member of the family Araneidae; an orb-weaver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Araneid
1. a spider [n -S] - See also: spider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Araneid
Literary usage of Araneid
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)
"In order to understand the development and structure of the araneid eyes, it is
necessary to compare them with the eyes of the Scorpiones. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1908)
"The Sex Ratio and Cocooning Habit of an araneid and the Genesis of Sex Ratio,"
by Thomas H. Montgomery. THE Istituto geográfico militare of Italy, ..."
3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"In addition to, and partly because of, our relative ignorance of ancient spiders,
we known but little of araneid ..."