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Spiders

Any arachnid of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax with eight legs, two poison fangs, and two feelers as well as an unsegmented abdomen with several spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.

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coxal glands

Animals; Spiders

The excretory organs of arachnids, in spiders located opposite the coxae of the first and third legs, that collect wastes into a saccule and discharge them through tubes opening behind the coxae; ...

retrolateral

Animals; Spiders

Projecting from, or on, the side facing backwards.

rugose

Animals; Spiders

Rough, wrinkled.

scape

Animals; Spiders

A finger-, tongue-, or lip-like projection from the midline of the female epigyne.

sclerite

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Any separate sclerotized structure connected to other structures by membranes.

sclerotized

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Hardened or horny; not flexible or membranous.

scopula

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A brush of hairs on the underside of the tarsus and metatarsus in some spiders.

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