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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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Fang
Animals; Spiders

The claw-like part of each chelicera; the poison duet opens near its tip.

Femur
Animals; Spiders

The third segment of the leg, counting from the body.

Endite
Animals; Spiders

The plate borne by the coxa of the pedipalps of most spiders, used to crush the prey; the maxilla.

Entelegyne
Animals; Spiders

The group of spiders in which the females have an epigyne.

Epigastric fold
Animals; Spiders

A fold and groove separating the anterior part of the ventral abdomen (with epigyne and book lungs) from the posterior part.

Epigyne
Animals; Spiders

A more or less sclerotized and modified external structure associated with the reproductive openings of adult females of most spider species.

Deutovum
Animals; Spiders

The resting, spiderlike stage following the shedding of the chorion of the egg; the second egg.

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