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# spider

«spider» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spider, spiders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spider is a small animal with 8 legs that spins webs of silk to catch insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#m1)

2) Spiders are not insects; they belong to a group called arachnids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#m2)

3) Most spiders are harmless to people, but a few, like some in Australia, have a dangerous bite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted animal with 8 legs, used in legs puzzles (spiders and beetles). In science: arachnids have 8 legs and 2 body parts; insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts; webs, predators and prey. In stories: «Charlotte's Web», «Incy Wincy Spider» (Itsy Bitsy Spider). Phrases: «spider's web», «spin a web».

### examples

- A spider has 8 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x1)
- How many legs do 5 spiders have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x2)
- There are spiders and beetles with 70 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x3)
- She saw 3 spiders in the web. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x4)
- A spider is not an insect because it has 8 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x5)
- The spider spun a web between two branches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x6)
- Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x7)
- In Australia, do not touch a redback spider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x8)
- "Good father Spider! please not to kill me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a spider». A spider web or «spider's web». Maths: hides «8 legs each». Trap: a spider is not an insect; it has 8 legs, not 6. Safety: do not pick up spiders you do not know.

### In the corpora

- [Jumping spiders have two huge front eyes that see sharply and in colour, and they stalk and pounce instead of using webs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/11/)
- [The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/18/)
- [Spiders make silk in glands in the abdomen and pull it out through spinnerets at the back end, not from wrists or legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/4/)
- [Not all spiders build round webs: some build funnels, sheets or tangles, and some build none at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/12/)
- [A spider has eight legs; an insect, such as a fly, has six.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.