barn spider
- noun
- /bɑrn ˈspaɪdər/
:
araña de granero
- The barn spider spun a perfectly round web in the corner of the rafters.
Examples
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I saw a barn spider in the corner of the barn.
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Look at that huge barn spider on the wall!
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Children often recognize the barn spider as the character Charlotte from the famous story.
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On autumn mornings, the dew highlights the barn spider's intricate web outside the old stable.
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The barn spider spun a new web every morning in the barn's rafters.
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I found a barn spider resting in the corner, its orange and tan body reflecting in the sunlight.
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Every night, the barn spider would weave a complex web, ready to catch any unsuspecting insects.
Synonyms
An orange and tan spider with dark banded legs that spins a round web in barns
A spider that spins round webs to catch insects
A spider that spins round webs to catch flying insects
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'barn spider' is directly compositional: 'barn' (a farm building) + 'spider' (an eight-legged arachnid) yields a spider associated with or found in barns. This straightforward noun-noun naming pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Barn spider comes from the simple picture of a large spider that lives in a barn and spins round webs on the beams. So the name means 'a spider found in barns' and helps you remember where to look for it.
