woodlouse spider

noun

a European spider, Dysdera crocata, introduced to the United States, that feeds mainly on woodlice; it has a painful, but not normally dangerous, bite

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Meanings

nounwoodlouse spider (plural woodlouse spiders)

plural woodlouse spiders

  1. a European spider, Dysdera crocata, introduced to the United States, that feeds mainly on woodlice; it has a painful, but not normally dangerous, bite
  2. any of various other spiders of the family Dysderidae.
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