Fly
Fly noun - Two-winged insects characterized by active flight.
Spider
Spider noun - Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey.
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Synonyms for Spider
Fly and spider are semantically related in bug topic. Sometimes you can use "Fly" instead a noun "Spider".
Nearby Words: spidery, spidering, spidered
Both words in one sentence
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In "Carbonite-mare", in a parody of Return of the Jedi's Jabba's Palace sequence, the Red Plains Rider visits a planet of fly and spider people that has been taken over by scum and villainy.
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EQ1 has the Plane of Disease, a bloated, disease-ridden, spider and fly infested place with ingrown hairs in the place of trees and a river of bile running through it.
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Cloak and dagger.Watson: I thought it was spider and fly.
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