"hunting spider" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hunting spiders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hunting spider (plural hunting spiders)
  1. A spider that hunts its prey on the ground instead of catching it in a web. Categories (lifeform): Spiders

Inflected forms

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