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Definition: Argyoneta aquatica
Water spider
\Wa“ter spi”der\ (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An aquatic European spider (
Argyoneta aquatica) which
constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on
water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of
silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with
air which the spider carries down in the form of small
bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind
feet. Called also
diving spider.
(b) A water mite.
(c) Any spider that habitually lives on or about the water,
especially the large American species (
Dolomedes lanceolatus
) which runs rapidly on the surface of water;
-- called also
raft spider.
[1913 Webster]