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Definition of orb web in English: orb webnoun A circular vertical spider's web formed of threads radiating from a central point, crossed by radial links that spiral in from the edge. Example sentencesExamples - This ferocious arachnid Arnold had already spun a large orb web, which looked like a batter's cage as it already covered the upper half of the window.
- Subadult and adult females were housed in separate Perspex frames, where they built typical orb webs.
- Web-builders particularly fascinate me, there is nothing quite like an intricate well-spun web (particularly orb webs, the way they spiral on themselves) and the fanatical and instinctive maintenance by it's owner.
- All spiders known to weave delicate circular net-like orb webs are spiders of the superfamily Araneoidea who produce this kind of glue coated ‘viscid’ silk.
- Or there's the time we kept a huge golden-spotted salamander successfully in a terrarium for a whole year, or the summer we watched as a huge spider rebuilt a beautiful orb web in our upstairs bathroom window each night.
- An orb web near the top of the plant may have attracted the hunting wasp.
- ‘There are around 5,000 species that spin orb webs,’ Coddington said.
- Typically, the male walked up the side of the frame, eventually encountering one of the support threads of the orb web.
Definition of orb web in US English: orb webnoun A generally circular, upright spider's web formed of threads radiating from a central point, crossed by radial links that spiral in from the edge. Example sentencesExamples - Web-builders particularly fascinate me, there is nothing quite like an intricate well-spun web (particularly orb webs, the way they spiral on themselves) and the fanatical and instinctive maintenance by it's owner.
- This ferocious arachnid Arnold had already spun a large orb web, which looked like a batter's cage as it already covered the upper half of the window.
- Or there's the time we kept a huge golden-spotted salamander successfully in a terrarium for a whole year, or the summer we watched as a huge spider rebuilt a beautiful orb web in our upstairs bathroom window each night.
- Subadult and adult females were housed in separate Perspex frames, where they built typical orb webs.
- Typically, the male walked up the side of the frame, eventually encountering one of the support threads of the orb web.
- All spiders known to weave delicate circular net-like orb webs are spiders of the superfamily Araneoidea who produce this kind of glue coated ‘viscid’ silk.
- ‘There are around 5,000 species that spin orb webs,’ Coddington said.
- An orb web near the top of the plant may have attracted the hunting wasp.
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