sea spider

1. 1.

   any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs

   Synonymspycnogonid

   Broaderarthropod

   Part ofPycnogonida

Questions about sea spider

What does sea spider mean?

sea spider means "any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs".

What is another word for sea spider?

Close synonyms include pycnogonid. 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 sea spider a common word?

sea 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.