Definition of Order Araneae

1. Noun. Spiders.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Araneae

order Anacanthini
order Anaspida
order Andreaeales
order Anguilliformes
order Anoplura
order Anostraca
order Anseriformes
order Anthocerotales
order Anura
order Aphyllophorales
order Aplacophora
order Apodes
order Apodiformes
order Apterygiformes
order Arales
order Araneae (current term)
order Araneida
order Aristolochiales
order Artiodactyla
order Aspergillales
order Auriculariales
order Batoidei
order Batrachia
order Belemnoidea
order Bennettitales
order Berycomorphi
order Blastocladiales
order Branchiura
order Bryales
order Campanulales

Literary usage of Order Araneae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"order Araneae Head completely fused with thorax. Abdomen with pedicel, segmented in the lowest forms, in all higher forms unsegmented. ..."

2. Sanitary entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"... the spiders to the order ARANEAE, and the mites and ticks to the order ACARINA, all in the class ARACHNIDA, characterized by eight legs. ..."

3. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"It belongs to the order Araneae, Class Arachnida, of which it is a typical representative. Meadows are often covered with the webs of Agelena, which glisten ..."

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