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garden spider

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Noun1.garden spidergarden spider - a spider common in European gardens
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
Aranea, Araneus, genus Aranea, genus Araneus - a genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders


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Among males of the yellow garden spider, "all of them do it," she says.
While examining a common garden spider, Vollrath found that silk starts out as a liquid inside the spider's abdomen.
Some typical arachnids that one might find include tiny house spiders - found in the corner of windowsills - and garden spiders, orb weavers and jumping spiders.
 
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