spider-plant

spider-plant (n.): 1823, said to have been discovered on the coast of the Pacific northwest of North America during Cook's third expedition and so-named by the sailors, "from its striking resemblance to a large spider when it first appears above the surface, before the stem begins to rise from the spherical arrangement of the leaves, or the flagellae begin to creep to any distance from among them to the soil around" [Peter Sutherland, "Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay," 1852]; from spider + plant (n.).

1. The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.: 蜘蛛必须等待猎物被它的蛛网困住。

2. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.: 绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。