any of numerous spiders of the family Argiopidae, characterized by loosely woven, spiraling webs that have support lines radiating outward from the center
Word origin
[1885–90]
Examples of 'orb weaver' in a sentence
orb weaver
Nasa insisted that the absent arachnid - an orb-weaver - was not exactly lost; it just couldn't be found.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Here, fat-bodied golden silk orb-weaver spiders chill not behind glass but freely in their metre-wide webs.