Spider web, the Glossary
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.[1]
Table of Contents
106 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Abdomen, Adhesion, Agelenidae, Alps, Amber, Anelosimus eximius, Antimicrobial, Araneus, Araneus diadematus, Astronaut, Australian garden orb weaver spider, Austria, Ballooning (spider), BBC Earth, Bird, Bulletproof vest, Catalysis, Channel 4, Charlotte's Web, Cobweb painting, Cultural depictions of spiders, Dehydration, Deinopidae, Desis marina, Devonian, Diving bell spider, Early Cretaceous, Earth's orbit, Elasticity (physics), England, Entomology, Espírito Santo do Dourado, Filter feeder, Final good, Genetic engineering, Gizmodo, Gland, Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Halloween, Hexathelidae, Hygroscopy, Idolatry, Karijini National Park, Kay Williamson, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Larinioides cornutus, Leucauge fastigata, Lexington, Massachusetts, List of trapdoor spiders, ... Expand index (56 more) »
- Arachnology
- Spider anatomy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.
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Abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
Adhesion
Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another.
Agelenidae
The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin.
Anelosimus eximius
Anelosimus eximius is a species of social spider in the genus Anelosimus, native to the Lesser Antilles and the area from Panama to Argentina.
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Antimicrobial
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent).
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Araneus
Araneus is a genus of common orb-weaving spiders.
Araneus diadematus
The spider species Araneus diadematus is commonly called the European garden spider, cross orbweaver, diadem spider, orangie, cross spider, and crowned orb weaver.
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Astronaut
An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον, meaning 'star', and ναύτης, meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.
Australian garden orb weaver spider
The Australian garden orb weaver spider (Hortophora transmarina) is a very common species of spider with many variants in size, shape, and colour across the coastal and northern regions of Australia.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Ballooning (spider)
Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. Spider web and Ballooning (spider) are Arachnology.
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BBC Earth
BBC Earth is a brand used by BBC Studios since 2009 to market and distribute the BBC's natural history content to countries other than the United Kingdom.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Bulletproof vest
A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or a bullet-resistant vest, is an item of body armour that helps absorb the impact and reduce or stop penetration to the torso by firearm-fired projectiles and fragmentation from explosions.
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Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams.
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Cobweb painting
Cobweb painting, sometimes known as gossamer painting, is the delicate process of painting on canvases made from caterpillar and spider webs that have been collected, layered, cleaned, and framed.
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Cultural depictions of spiders
Throughout history, spiders have been depicted in popular culture, mythology and in symbolism.
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Dehydration
In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes.
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Deinopidae
Deinopidae, also known as net casting spiders, is a family of cribellate spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.
Desis marina
Desis marina, the intertidal spider, is a spider species found in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Chatham Islands.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
Diving bell spider
The diving bell spider or water spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only species of spider known to live almost entirely under water.
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Earth's orbit
Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (8.317 light minutes, 92.96 million mi) in a counterclockwise direction as viewed from above the Northern Hemisphere.
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Elasticity (physics)
In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.
Espírito Santo do Dourado
Espírito Santo do Dourado is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.
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Filter feeder
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.
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Final good
A final good or consumer good is a final product ready for sale that is used by the consumer to satisfy current wants or needs, unlike an intermediate good, which is used to produce other goods.
Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology.
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Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.
Gland
A gland is a cell or an organ in an animal's body that produces and secretes different substances either into the bloodstream or into a body cavity or outer surface that the organism needs.
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England.
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Halloween
Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.
Hexathelidae
Hexathelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders.
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Hygroscopy
Hygroscopy is the phenomenon of attracting and holding water molecules via either absorption or adsorption from the surrounding environment, which is usually at normal or room temperature.
Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity.
Karijini National Park
Karijini National Park is an Australian national park centred in the Hamersley Ranges of the Pilbara region in the northwestern section of Western Australia.
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Kay Williamson
Kay Williamson (January 26, 1935, Hereford, United Kingdom – January 3, 2005, Brazil), born Ruth Margaret Williamson, was a linguist who specialised in the study of African languages, particularly those of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, where she lived for nearly fifty years.
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Lake Tawakoni State Park
Lake Tawakoni State Park is a state park located in Hunt County, Texas, United States, north of Wills Point.
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Larinioides cornutus
Larinioides cornutus, the furrow spider,Weber, Larry (2003).
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Leucauge fastigata
Leucauge fastigata, the pear-shaped leucauge, is a species of spiders in the family Tetragnathidae (long-jawed orb weavers).
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Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston.
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List of trapdoor spiders
Trapdoor spider is a common name that is used to refer to various spiders from several different groups that create burrows with a silk-hinged trapdoor to help them ambush prey.
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Long-jawed orb weaver
Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866.
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Low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
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Medical device
A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes.
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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 census.
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Nanoparticle
A nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter.
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Nephila pilipes
Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver, Arachne.org.au) is a species of golden orb-web spider.
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Neurotoxin
Neurotoxins are toxins that are destructive to nerve tissue (causing neurotoxicity).
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.
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Obverse and reverse
The obverse and reverse are the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics.
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Orb-weaver spider
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae.
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Owen Garriott
Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983.
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Parable
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country.
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Parawixia bistriata
Parawixia bistriata is a spider species found mainly in South America.
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Peter Parker (Sam Raimi film series)
Peter Benjamin Parker, also known by his alter ego Spider-Man, is a superhero portrayed by Tobey Maguire, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Resonator
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior.
Santo Antônio da Platina
Santo Antônio da Platina is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.
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Skylab
Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.
Skylab 3
Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
Spider silk
Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders. Spider web and spider silk are spider anatomy.
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099 is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Spinneret
A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect. Spider web and spinneret are spider anatomy.
Stabilimentum
A stabilimentum (plural: stabilimenta), also known as a web decoration, is a conspicuous silk structure included in the webs of some species of orb-web spider. Spider web and stabilimentum are spider anatomy.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
Surface tension
Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.
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Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
Tattoo
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design.
Tendon
A tendon or sinew is a tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Theridiidae
Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.
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Tyrol (federal state)
Tyrol (Tirol; Tirolo) is an Austrian federal state.
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Uloboridae
Uloboridae is a family of non-venomous spiders, known as cribellate orb weavers or hackled orb weavers.
Uloborus diversus
Uloborus diversus is a species of cribellate orb weaver in the spider family Uloboridae.
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Ultimate tensile strength
Ultimate tensile strength (also called UTS, tensile strength, TS, ultimate strength or F_\text in notation) is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before breaking.
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United States one-dollar bill
The United States one-dollar bill (US$1), sometimes referred to as a single, has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency since the discontinuation of U.S. fractional currency notes in 1876.
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Vitamin K
Vitamin K is a family of structurally similar, fat-soluble vitamers found in foods and marketed as dietary supplements.
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.
Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
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Weightlessness
Weightlessness is the complete or near-complete absence of the sensation of weight, i.e., zero apparent weight.
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Wolf spider
Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae, so named for their robust and agile hunting skills and excellent eyesight.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
Zygiella x-notata
Zygiella x-notata, sometimes known as the missing sector orb weaver or the silver-sided sector spider,, British Arachnological Society, 2016.
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2010 Pakistan floods
The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin.
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See also
Arachnology
- Acarology
- Arachnologists
- Arachnology
- Ballooning (spider)
- Glossary of spider terms
- Oxyopinin
- Spider web
- World Spider Catalog
Spider anatomy
- AMSilk
- Arthropod leg
- Book lung
- Calamistrum
- Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)
- Cribellum
- Epigyne
- Exuviae
- List of six-eyed spiders
- Palpal bulb
- Pedipalp
- Scopulae
- Slit sensilla
- Spider anatomy
- Spider silk
- Spider vision
- Spider web
- Spidroin
- Spinneret
- Stabilimentum
- Urticating hair
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web
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