noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider .
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He was built like a black widow spider , his chest and shoulders so large that it diminished his limbs.
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The biggest blackest spider I have ever seen in my life.
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There are stories about the ant and a black widow spider .
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In the long grass she found a massive, black , hairy spider .
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Saw the huge black spider close by; standing; glistening; staring straight at me.
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The last bathtub Tamika was in had black mold, spiders and cold water.
giant
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As the mount will be either a war boar, giant spider or giant wolf their profiles have been included in full.
red
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Spraying with water is particularly effective for discouraging red spider mite, which flourishes in dry conditions.
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There are no pesticides approved against red spider mites on sugar beet.
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In recent hot summers, red spider mite has become a severe problem in some gardens.
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Dry air in the greenhouse will encourage pests such as red spider mite.
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Pest problems Greenhouse crops are susceptible to greenfly, whitefly and red spider mite which all feed on the leaves.
■ NOUN
monkey
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In Amazonia woolly monkeys and spider monkeys have been wiped out by over-hunting.
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In spider monkeys the reverse applies: Females leave home.
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Woolly monkeys and howlers, spider monkeys and capuchins, tamarins and marmosets scramble around one another reaching for the fruit.
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But baboons and spider monkeys take for granted the fact that their societies are strictly stratified.
web
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Dawn brings a gift of spider webs flashing diamonds on sea-grey gorse.
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Like a spider web or a caddis house, a beaver dam is among the true wonders of the world.
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The third task was to get the five members of our group through a large spider web .
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It was small but typically eighteenth-century in origin, with an Adam doorway and spider web fanlight.
widow
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Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider .
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He was built like a black widow spider , his chest and shoulders so large that it diminished his limbs.
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There are stories about the ant and a black widow spider .
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Mud-Dauber wasps Anyone who's seen Arochnophobio will know it's not clever to pick on Black Widow spiders .
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The black widow spider and its relatives produce neurotoxins.
■ VERB
catch
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Later, if you catch a spider of a different kind, you may find that its web-building habits are quite different.
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The spider may be on the web, perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught .
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It is usually easy to catch spiders because when disturbed they often drop quickly off the web.
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So when you have caught one spider , bring it home and put it in the cage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are the answers to the above questions always the same for the same spider ?
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Forest Goblin Shamans keep small poisonous spiders in their mouths.
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He moved to the far end of the living room and boiled a small young spider plant.
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Mr Popple, upon returning home alone, found the spider floating in the toilet-bowl.
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Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider .
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Spraying with water is particularly effective for discouraging red spider mite, which flourishes in dry conditions.
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The blanched nape of a neck, spiders of hair breaking free of the bun, twirling on the surface.