silk-weaver

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• Silk in the Indian subcontinent — Silk in India as elsewhere, is an item of luxury.For more than four thousand years, this cloth produced from the cocoons of caterpillers, has been associated with crowned heads and riches throughout the different ages. As a designer once said… …   Wikipedia

• Weaver ant — Oecophylla Temporal range: 47–0 Ma …   Wikipedia

• Silk Spectre — Superherobox caption = Laurie Juspeczyk as the Silk Spectre character name = Silk Spectre publisher = DC Comics debut = Watchmen #1 (September 1986) creators = Alan Moore Dave Gibbons John Higgins alter ego = Sally Jupiter (I) Laurie Juspeczyk… …   Wikipedia

• silk spider — noun : a large spider (Nephila clavipes) native to the southern United States and remarkable for its large webs composed of strong silk; broadly : any of several related spiders that produce unusually heavy silk * * * silk spider, any spider… …   Useful english dictionary

• silk spider — ▪ arachnid also called  Golden Silk Spider        (Nephila), any of a genus of the class Arachnida (phylum Arthropoda), so named because of the great strength of their silk and the golden colour of their huge orb webs. These webs often measure… …   Universalium

• weaver ant — noun Date: 1913 any of various ants (especially genus Oecophylla) that build nests from leaves bound together with silk secreted by larvae …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• weaver ant — /ˈwivər ænt/ (say weevuhr ant) noun → green ant (def. 1). {from its habit of constructing nests from leaves held together with larval silk} …  

• Golden silk orb-weaver — Nephila redirects here. For the use in Aramaic culture, see Orion (constellation). For the race mentioned in the Book of Genesis, see Nephilim. Golden silk orb weaver Temporal range: Middle Jurassic Recent, 165–0 Ma …   Wikipedia

• Orb-weaver spider — Argiope catenulata Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• orb weaver — orb weav er, orb weaver orb weav er, n. Any spider of the family {Araneidae} (called also {Argiopidae}) that spins a web with a pattern of lines spiraling outward from the center. They have eight similar eyes. The golden orb weaver, {Mephila… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English