arano-, aran- +
(Latin: spider)
Laws are like spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them, they ensnare it; but large things break through and escape.
—Salon, Greek law-giver (c. 640-558)
Aranea
A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
Araneae
Spiders.
araneid
An invertebrate of an order that comprises the spiders.
Araneida
Spiders.
Araneidae
The orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests.
araneidan
A spider of the class Araneida.
araneomorph
A member of a suborder of spiders distinguished by the sideways movement of their jaws.
araneophage, araneophagic, araneophagy
Feeding on, or eating, spiders.
araneose
1. Covered with, or consisting of, fine entangled filaments or webs.
2. An aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.
araneous
1. Like a spider web.
2. Made up of, or covered with, slender tangled hairs; cobwebby.
Araneus
A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
nevus araneus, spider nevus
Acquired or congenital dilation of the capillaries, marked by red lines radiating from a central red dot.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "spider; arachnoidea":
acaro-;
arachno-;
mite, mites.
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