Word Meanings - ORBITELAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.

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• GARDEN
  German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful
• SPIDERWORT
  An American endogenous plant , with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• SPIDER
  Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• GARDENING
  The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
• GARDENSHIP
  Horticulture.
• SPIDER WEB; SPIDER'S WEB
  The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• GARDENER
  One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• GARDENLESS
  Destitute of a garden. Shelley.
• SPIDERLIKE
  Like a spider. Shak.
• GEOMETRICALLY
  According to the rules or laws of geometry.
• GARDENLY
  Like a garden. W. Marshall.
• GARDENIA
  A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• EPEIRA
  A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E. diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• BALLOONING SPIDER
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• SEA SPIDER
  Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider. Any pycnogonid.
• GEOMETRIC; GEOMETRICAL
  Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem. Note: Geometric is often used, as opposed to algebraic, to include processes or solutions in which the propositions
• WATER SPIDER
  An aquatic European spider which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.