house spider

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English

Noun

house spider (plural house spiders)

  1. Any spider or kind of spider that dwells in human residences.
    1. yellow sac spider, Cheiracanthium inclusum, a common house spider worldwide.
    2. black house spider, Badumna insignis, an Australian spider also found in New Zealand;
    3. brown house spider, Steatoda grossa, a spider with cosmopolitan distribution;
    4. American house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, a cobweb spider;
    5. daddy long-legs spiders, of the Pholcidae family;
    6. domestic house spider, Tegenaria domestica;
    7. giant house spider, Eratigena atrica, syn. Tegenaria gigantea;
    8. hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis, aggressive house spider;
    9. southern house spider, Kukulcania hibernalis;
    10. tiny house spider, Oonops domesticus

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