Definition of Genus Aranea

1. Noun. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aranea

genus Apodemus
genus Apogon
genus Aporocactus
genus Appendicularia
genus Aptenodytes
genus Apteryx
genus Apus
genus Aquila
genus Aquilegia
genus Ara
genus Arabidopsis
genus Arabis
genus Arachis
genus Aralia
genus Aramus
genus Aranea (current term)
genus Araneus
genus Araucaria
genus Araujia
genus Arbutus
genus Arca
genus Arcella
genus Arceuthobium
genus Archaeopteryx
genus Archaeornis
genus Archeopteryx
genus Archidiskidon
genus Archilochus
genus Architeuthis
genus Archosargus

Literary usage of Genus Aranea

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

1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"Genus ARANEA (A-ran'ea) The cephalothorax is moderately arched and is without ... The genus Aranea is a very large one, in the United States alone nearly ..."

2. The Entomologist's Text Book: An Introduction to the Natural History by John Obadiah Westwood (1838)
"This order corresponds with the Linnaean genus Aranea, to which Latreille gave the name of Fileuses or Spinners, Mac- Leay that of ..."

3. International Catalogue of Scientific Literatureby Royal Society (Great Britain) by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Sixth instalment, ib., 12, 1903, (481-495). [3031]. 14041 A revision of the genera characters in the genus Aranea Linn. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., London, (Ser. ..."

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