red spider

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   small web-spinning mite; a serious orchard pest

   Synonymsred spider mitePanonychus ulmi

   Broaderspider mite

   Part ofPanonychus

Questions about red spider

What does red spider mean?

red spider means "small web-spinning mite; a serious orchard pest".

What is another word for red spider?

Close synonyms include red spider mite, Panonychus ulmi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red spider a common word?

red spider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.