Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun barn_spider

1 sense of barn spider

Sense 1
barn spider, Araneus cavaticus -- (an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily; "the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web'")
       => spider -- (predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey)