recluse spider
noun
Any of various venomous New World spiders of the genus Loxosceles (family Sicariidae) (also called violin spider); especially (more fully brown recluse spider) L. reclusa of the south-eastern United States, which lives beneath logs or stones or in dark recesses in buildings.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Northwest Arkansas Times.
- cryptonymous
- cryptopentamerous
- cryptophyte
- cryptophytic
- cryptopine
- cryptoporticus
- cryptorchid
- cryptorchidism
- cryptorchism
- cryptosporidial
- cryptosporidiosis
- cryptosporidium
- cryptostoma
- cryptosystem
- cryptous
- cryptovolcanic
- cryptoxanthin
- cryptozoa
- cryptozoic
- cryptozoological
- cryptozoologist
- cryptozoology
- cryptozoon
- cryptozoön
- cryptozygous