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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A tribe of sedentary spiders which spin webs whose threads cross irregularly in all directions. They are known as line-wearers. Walckenaer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariæ.

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  • the right trite way

    May 21, 2011