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Araneus

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Noun1.AraneusAraneus - a genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders
Aranea, genus Aranea, genus Araneus
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Argiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver - spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution
Araneus cavaticus, barn spider - an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily; "the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web'"
Aranea diademata, garden spider - a spider common in European gardens


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18 SCIENCE, they describe what happened when they put a silk-protein gene from the common garden spider Araneus diadematus into hamster cells.
Mammal cells make fake spider silk better. (Science News of the week) by Weiss, P. / Science News
In addition to the genes for the dragline silk proteins of the golden orb weaver, Gosline's group has gone after four related genes in another spider, Araneus diadematus, that produces an unusual silklike protein.
Artificial spider silk by Lipkin, Richard / Science News
At that time, the common garden spider, Araneus diadematus, devised the planar orb web, an extraordinarily efficient structure for capturing fast-flying and, on an insect's scale, massive objects.
Computer reveals clues to spiderwebs by Lipkin, Ronald / Science News
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