| 单词 | geometric spider |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgeometric spider geometric spider n. now rare a spider which constructs a flat vertical web; an orb-weaver; esp. the European garden spider, Araneus diadematus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Argiopidae retiary spider1658 geometrical spider1815 geometric spider1815 retiary1835 Epeirid1881 orb-weaver1883 magnificent spider1936 orb-web spider1945 orb spider1983 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. 414 The nets of the geometric spiders are in favourable weather renewed either wholly, or at least their concentric circles, every twenty-four hours. 1878 Daily News 24 Oct. 6/4 The common garden or geometric spider is now to be seen abundantly. 1919 W. H. Hudson Birds in Town & Village 208 There sits the solitary geometric spider, an image and embodiment of patience, not on a monument, but a suspended wheel of which he is himself the hub. 1967 Aquarist Mar. 263/1 The water spider..commences to spin a web between two closely growing stems. Unlike the web of the familiar geometric spider of our gardens, this one is closely spun and constructed on a horizontal plane. < as lemmas |
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