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Spiders

Any arachnid of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax with eight legs, two poison fangs, and two feelers as well as an unsegmented abdomen with several spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.

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Araneae

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The ordinal name of all spiders; same as Araneida.

Araneology

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The branch of zoology that treats only of the spiders. Arthropod.The jointed-legged animals, such as centipedes, millipedes, insects, crustaceans, spiders, scorpions, and many other less well-known ...

Attachment disc

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The series of tiny lines that serve to anchor the draglines of spiders.

Autophagy

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The eating of an appendage shed from the body by autotomy or otherwise.

Autospasy

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The loss of appendages by breaking them at a predetermined locus of weakness when pulled by an outside form; frequent in spiders and arachnids.

Autotomy

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The act of reflex self-mutilation by dropping appendages; unknown in the arachnids.

Ballooning

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Aeronautical dispersal by means of air currents acting on strands of silk.

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