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Need another word that means the same as “spider”? Find 1 synonym and 30 related words for “spider” in this overview.

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Spider as a Noun
Definitions of "Spider" as a noun
Synonyms of "Spider" as a noun (1 Word)
Associations of "Spider" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Spider” are: wanderer

Spider as a Noun

Definitions of "Spider" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spider” as a noun can have the following definitions:

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.
A skillet made of cast iron.
A set of radiating elastic ties used to hold a load in place on a vehicle.
An object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes.
A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine.
Used in names of arachnids similar or related to spiders, e.g. sea spider, sun spider.
A long-legged rest for a billiard cue that can be placed over a ball without touching it.
An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs that inject venom into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

Synonyms of "Spider" as a noun (1 Word)

wanderer

A person who travels aimlessly.
He is a longtime seaman a rootless wanderer.

Associations of "Spider" (30 Words)

ant	A small insect typically having a sting and living in a complex social colony with one or more breeding queens. It is wingless except for fertile adults, which form large mating swarms, and is proverbial for its industriousness.
aphid	Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
arachnid	Relating to or denoting arachnids.
badger	A native or resident of Wisconsin. Journalists badgered him about the deals.
beleaguer	Annoy persistently. Our leaders decided to beleaguer* the city.*
bug	Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis. A persistent reporter was bugging me.
butterfly	Having a two lobed shape resembling the spread wings of a butterfly. A social butterfly.
cobweb	Something resembling a cobweb in delicacy or intricacy. The wooden carvings were almost obliterated by cobwebs.
cockroach	Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests.
earthworm	Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers.
ectoparasite	A parasite, such as a flea, that lives on the outside of its host.
exterminator	Someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects. He became an exterminator* of pumas tracking them down in dark caverns.*
flea	A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis.
gossamer	So thin as to transmit light. Gossamer cobwebs.
herpetologist	A zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians.
insect	A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings. Insect pests.
insectivorous	(of a plant such as the sundew) able to capture and digest insects.
invertebrate	An animal lacking a backbone such as an arthropod mollusc annelid coelenterate etc The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom comprising 95 per cent of animal species and about thirty different phyla. Worms are an example of invertebrate* animals.*
mite	Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods.
moth	A clothes moth. I store my sweaters in plastic bags to protect them from moths.
nit	A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source. You stupid nit.
pest	A serious sometimes fatal infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal. The tomato plant attracts a pest* called whitefly.*
pesticide	A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
scorpion	Used in names of arachnids and insects resembling a scorpion e g false scorpion water scorpion.
snail	Gather snails. We went snailing in the summer.
sparrow	Any of a number of birds that resemble true sparrows in size or colour.
tarantula	Large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement.
venomous	Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful. Venomous criticism.
web	The flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft. The trees cast a delicate web* of shadows over the lawn.*
worm	Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack. You ungrateful little worm.