trap-door spider

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   American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid

   Broaderspider

   Part ofCtenizidae

Questions about trap-door spider

What does trap-door spider mean?

trap-door spider means "American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid".

Is trap-door spider a common word?

trap-door 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.