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Definition of Order 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 Order Araneae
Literary usage of Order Araneae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"order Araneae Head completely fused with thorax. Abdomen with pedicel, segmented
in the lowest forms, in all higher forms unsegmented. ..."
2. Sanitary entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"... the spiders to the order ARANEAE, and the mites and ticks to the order ACARINA,
all in the class ARACHNIDA, characterized by eight legs. ..."
3. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"It belongs to the order Araneae, Class Arachnida, of which it is a typical
representative. Meadows are often covered with the webs of Agelena, which glisten ..."
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