圆蛛

圓蛛
yuánzhū
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 orb-weaver spider (a spider of the family Araneidae that spins circular webs)

Examples

Yuánzhū zài shùzhī jiān zhī chū yī zhāng yuánxíng de dà wǎng.
The orb-weaver spins a large circular web between the branches.
Dàfù yuánzhū shì tíngyuàn lǐ zuì chángjiàn de zhīzhū zhī yī.
The cross orb-weaver is one of the most common spiders in gardens.

Tips

memory
('round') describes the web, not the spider. Orb-weavers (Araneidae) are the classic 'spider-web' spiders of storybooks — the ones that build the perfectly round, spoked webs every autumn morning.

Stroke Order

yuán
zhū