purseweb spider

English

Noun

purseweb spider (plural purseweb spiders)

1. any of several spiders, of the family Atypidae, that builds a silken tube close to the ground.

Synonyms

• atypical tarantula

Coordinate terms

• funnel-web spider (Atracidae, Macrothelidae), cobweb spider (Theridiidae), scaffold web spider (Nesticidae), pan-web spider (Cyrtophora exanthematica, in Araneidae), tube-web spider (Segestriidae), orb-web spider (Araneidae)

Related terms

• purse
• web

Translations

spider

• Dutch: mijnspin f
• Finnish: putkihämähäkki
• German: Tapezierspinne f
• Irish: damhán alla peaslín m
• Korean: 땅거미 (ko) (ttanggeomi)
• Polish: gryziel m

References

• purseweb spider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “purseweb spider”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.