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spider

noun
 
🔊/ˈspaɪdə(r)/
🔊/ˈspaɪdər/
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  1. a small creature with eight thin legs. Many spiders spin webs to catch insects for food.蜘蛛
    • a poisonous spider有毒的蜘蛛
    • She stared in horror at the hairy black spider.她惊恐地盯着那毛茸茸的黑蜘蛛。
    • In the film, giant spiders attack a town in Arizona.在影片中，巨型蜘蛛袭击了亚利桑那州的一个城镇。
    • I was bitten by a spider.我被蜘蛛咬了。
    see also money spiderTopics Insects, worms, etc.a2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • big
    • huge
    • large
    • …
    spider + verb
    • make a web
    • spin a web
    • weave a web
    • …
    spider + noun
    • silk
    • web
    phrases
    • a spider’s web
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    Word Originlate Old English spīthra, from spinnan ‘draw out and twist (fibre)’; related to German spinnen.