order Araneida

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Noun1.order Araneida - spidersorder Araneida - spiders        
animal order - the order of animals
Arachnida, class Arachnida - a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
spider - predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
Argiopidae, family Argiopidae, orb-weaver - spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution
family Theridiidae, Theridiidae - a family of comb-footed spiders
family Theraphosidae, Theraphosidae - large tropical spiders; tarantulas
family Lycosidae, Lycosidae - wolf spiders
Ctenizidae, family Ctenizidae - large burrowing spiders
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Individuals from the order Araneida (spiders) were often not identified beyond order due to their taxonomic complexity and lack of a local reference collection.
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