spider

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Common Words

蜘蛛クモちちゅちちゅうちしゅNounUsually kanaFreq #9061
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spider

Examples
大きな蜘蛛が巣を作っていた。
A big spider was spinning a web.
蜘蛛の巣クモの巣ものすNounExpressionFreq #19015
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spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb

Examples
クモがクモの巣を張るところを見たことがありますか。
Have you ever seen a spider spinning its web?
蜘蛛の糸くものいとNounFreq #26343
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Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Spider's Thread (1918 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)

クモの糸蜘蛛の糸くもの糸くものいと (蜘蛛の糸/くもの糸)クモのいと (クモの糸)NounFreq #26343
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spider's thread; spider silk

蜘蛛の子を散らすくものこをちらすExpressionGodan verbFreq #33961
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to scatter in all directions (like baby spiders)

ちぐも土蜘蛛土雲NounFreq #53922
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土蜘蛛 only; Word usually written using kana alone

Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider)

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tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)

毒グモ毒蜘蛛毒ぐもどくグモ (毒グモ)くぐも (毒蜘蛛/毒ぐも)NounFreq #69705
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poisonous spider; venomous spider

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Obsolete term

wolf spider

雲助すけ蜘蛛助NounFreq #77291
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Historical term

ruffian palanquin bearer (Edo period)

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Derogatory

thug; ruffian; scoundrel; exploiter

女郎蜘蛛絡新婦ょろうぐもジョロウグモNounFreq #79694
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jorō spider (Trichonephila clavata)

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絡新婦 only; Japanese mythology

spider yōkai

くも膜下出血クモ膜下出血もまくかしゅっけつくもまっかしゅっけつ蜘蛛膜下出血NounFreq #80059
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Medicine

subarachnoid hemorrhage; subarachnoid haemorrhage; SAH

Examples
私は14歳のときに、父をくも膜下出血で亡くした。
I lost my father to a subarachnoid haemorrhage when I was fourteen.

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