"spitting spider" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spitting spiders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spitting spider (plural spitting spiders)
  1. Any spider from the family Scytodidae. These spiders catch their prey by spitting an immobilizing fluid at them. Categories (lifeform): Spiders Translations (spider from the family Scytodidae): lijmspuiter (Dutch), Speispinne [feminine] (German), Leimschleuderspinne [feminine] (German), naʼashjéʼii adizhahí (Navajo), пау́к-плева́ка (paúk-pleváka) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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