Wolf Spider

  

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Wolf Spider

Definition: Wolf Spider

Wolf Spider

Noun

1. Ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Wolf Spider

Synonym: hunting spider (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Wolf spider

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The wolf spider is a spider of the family Lycosidae. Except for the genus Sosippus, these spiders do not use their silk to make a snare. Some use their silk to line a tubular tunnel in the ground. Some take regular shelter in natural crevices. Still others spend their entire lives wandering around with no fixed abode. Unlike many other spiders, they have good vision and run their prey down. Wolf spiders are made more easy to spot because the females carry their eggs along with them in a spherical silk bag which is attached to their spinnerets. After the eggs hatch the large numbers of tiny spiders climb onto the mother's abdomen and are carried about for a considerable time.

The background is a half-inch grid. This Carolina Wolf Spider (Lycosa carolinensis), is the largest wolf spider in North America and was photographed in North Carolina, USA.

For more information, see How to Know the Spiders, by B. J. Kaston, Dubuque, Iowa, 1953.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wolf spider."

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Crosswords: Wolf Spider

English words defined with "wolf spider": CitigradaeEuropean wolf spiderhunting spidertarantism. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Wolf Spider

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tattoo of a Wolf Spider (reference)

  • The Wolf Spider (McGinty, Alice B. Library of Spiders.) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Wolf Spider

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Expression: Wolf Spider

Expression using "wolf spider": european wolf spider. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wolf Spider

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wolf spider

1,103

picture of a wolf spider

74
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wolf Spider

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Canis lupus, Maja squinado, Nemapogon granellus, Philanthus triangulum, RM:luf, Theridiosoma. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Wolf Spider

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-o-p-r-s-w"

-2 letters: leporids, profiled, profiles.

-3 letters: despoil, diploes, dipoles, dowries, flowers, folders, fowlers, leporid, oldwife, periods, pilfers, plowers, polders, powders, presold, profile, prowled, reflows, refolds, rowdies, soldier, solider, spoiled, spoiler, swirled, weirdos, weldors, wilders, wolfers.

-4 letters: diploe, dipole, dispel, dopers, dopier, dories, dorsel, dowels, dowers, dowser, drowse, felids, fields, filers, filose, fiords, fliers, florid, flowed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wolf Spider


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 6F 6C 66      53 70 69 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101111 01101100 01100110 00100000 01010011 01110000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#111 &#108 &#102 &#32 &#83 &#112 &#105 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 006C 0066      0053 0070 0069 0064 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

578178722538275707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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