web spinner

noun

: an insect that spins a web

especially : any of an order (Embioptera synonym Embiidina) of small slender gregarious insects with biting mouthparts that live in silken tunnels which they spin

Examples of web spinner in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The third group, the Araneomorphae, includes 5500 jumping spiders, 4500 dwarf spiders, 2400 wolf spiders, and thousands of web spinners. —

Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017

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