The word about the bird and the spider

Word List

  • actually [ˈaktʃʊəli] adv.

    Actually means in fact or really.

    My dad looks a little mean, but actually he’s very kind.

  • bite [bʌɪt] n.

    Bite is the act of using your teeth to cut and tear into something.

    The boy took a big bite out of his hamburger.

  • coast [kəʊst] n.

    The coast is the land by an ocean.

    I stayed on the southern coast of Australia.

  • deal [diːl] n.

    A deal is an agreement that you have with another person.

    I made a deal with the other company to give us some money.

  • desert [dɪˈzəːt] n.

    The desert is an area of land without many plants or water.

    Not many plants grow in the desert.

  • earthquake [ˈəːθkweɪk] n.

    An earthquake is a shaking movement of the ground.

    The building shook during the earthquake.

  • effective [ɪˈfɛktɪv] adj.

    If something is effective, it works well.

    Swimming is an effective way to stay healthy.

  • examine [ɪɡˈzamɪn] v.

    To examine something is to look at it carefully.

    The doctor examined my eyes today.

  • false [fɔːls] adj.

    If something is false, it is not correct.

    If you think the answer is false, press the red button.

  • gift [ɡɪft] n.

    A gift is something you give someone.

    Dave received many gifts for Christmas.

  • hunger [ˈhʌŋɡə] n.

    Hunger is the feeling that you get when you need to eat.

    After playing all day long, he was filled with hunger.

  • imagine [ɪˈmadʒɪn] v.

    To imagine something is to think of it in your mind.

    Sally imagined herself winning lots of money.

  • journey [ˈdʒəːni] n.

    A journey is a long trip.

    I went on a journey across the country with my parents.

  • puzzle [ˈpʌz(ə)l] n.

    A puzzle is something that is hard to understand.

    The question was a puzzle to him.

  • quite [kwʌɪt] adv.

    Quite is used to say that something is complete or very much.

    I think typing on a keyboard is quite easy.

  • rather [ˈrɑːðə] adv.

    Rather is used when you want to do one thing but not the other.

    I would rather have the red one than the blue one.

  • specific [spəˈsɪfɪk] adj.

    If something is specific, it is precise or exact.

    Please choose a specific place on the map.

  • tour [tʊə] n.

    A tour is a short trip in which you see many sights.

    I took a tour of Asia and Europe.

  • trip [trɪp] n.

    A trip is a journey to a certain place.

    Ken took a trip to the city yesterday.

  • value [ˈvaljuː] n.

    If something has value, it is worth a lot of money.

    Matthew found a treasure of very high value.

The Spider and the Bird

There was once a very big spider. If a bug got into his web, he would examine it. However, he didn’t eat the bug right away. He asked the bug a question first. It was always quite a difficult puzzle. If the bug’s answer was correct, he let it go. If not, he ate it.

One day, a small bird on a journey flew into the spider’s web. The spider couldn’t imagine eating a bird. It was so big! But his hunger was too great. He said to the bird, “If you cannot give me a specific answer, I will eat you.”

The bird laughed. “I could eat you!” But the bird was actually scared. She had used all her energy trying to get out of the web. And a spider’s bite can be very effective in killing animals.

“Please don’t eat me,” the bird said. “I would rather make a deal with you.”

“OK,” the spider said. “If your answer is right, I will let you go. If not, you must give me a gift. It must be something of great value.”

The bird said, “You can pick anything you want to eat. I will find it for you.” The spider agreed.

“Where can you take a trip to the coast, the desert, and the mountains at the same time?” the spider asked.

The bird asked, “Does this place have earthquakes?” But the spider did not say anything. “I can see those places when I fly. Is the ‘sky’ the right answer?”

False!” said the spider. “The answer is Hawaii! Now you must find some bugs for me.”

The spider climbed on the bird’s back. They flew and ate bugs together. They took a tour of the forest. Then the bird took the spider home. From that day on, they were friends. And they never tried to eat each other again.

Reading Comprehension

Answer the questions.

  1. Which is NOT part of the spider’s puzzle?

    • a. The coast
    • b. An earthquake
    • c. A mountain
    • d. The desert
  2. Why does the bird make a deal instead of flying away?

    • a. Her wings are quite effective in the web.
    • b. She is too tired from trying to get out of the web.
    • c. She cannot fly because of her hunger.
    • d. She would rather take the spider on a trip.
  3. What will be the bird’s gift to the spider?

    • a. A tour of the coast
    • b. A specific kind of web
    • c. Anything the spider wants to eat
    • d. A trip to anywhere
  4. What is the spider’s response to the bird’s answer?

    • a. Your answer is false!
    • b. Can you imagine!
    • c. No deal!
    • d. That has no value!
  5. What is the first thing the spider does when a bug gets into his web?
    _____________

Answer Key

Answer Key

Reading Comprehension

  1. b
  2. b
  3. c
  4. a
  5. He asks the bug a question first.

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Word List

  • actually [ˈaktʃʊəli] adv.
    Actually means in fact or really.
    My dad looks a little mean, but actually, he’s very kind.
  • bite [bʌɪt] n.
    Bite is the act of using your teeth to cut and tear into something.
    The boy took a big bite out of his hamburger.
  • coast [kəʊst] n.
    The coast is the land by an ocean.
    I stayed on the southern coast of Australia.
  • deal [diːl] n.
    A deal is an agreement that you have with another person.
    I made a deal with the other company to give us some money.
  • desert [dɪˈzəːt] n.
    The desert is an area of land without many plants or water.
    Not many plants grow in the desert.
  • earthquake [ˈəːθkweɪk] n.
    An earthquake is a shaking movement of the ground.
    The building shook during the earthquake.
  • effective [ɪˈfɛktɪv] adj.
    If something is effective, it works well.
    Swimming is an effective way to stay healthy.
  • examine [ɪɡˈzamɪn] v.
    To examine something is to look at it carefully.
    The doctor examined my eyes today.
  • false [fɔːls] adj.
    If something is false, it is not correct.
    If you think the answer is false, press the red button.
  • gift [ɡɪft] n.
    A gift is something you give someone.
    Dave received many gifts for Christmas.
  • hunger [ˈhʌŋɡə] n.
    Hunger is the feeling that you get when you need to eat.
    After playing all day long, he was filled with hunger.
  • imagine [ɪˈmadʒɪn] v.
    To imagine something is to think of it in your mind.
    Sally imagined herself winning lots of money.
  • journey [ˈdʒəːni] n.
    A journey is a long trip.
    I went on a journey across the country with my parents.
  • puzzle [ˈpʌz(ə)l] n.
    A puzzle is something that is hard to understand.
    The question was a puzzle to him.
  • quite [kwʌɪt] adv.
    Quite is used to say that something is complete or very much.
    I think typing on a keyboard is quite easy.
  • rather [ˈrɑːðə] adv.
    Rather is used when you want to do one thing but not the other.
    I would rather have the red one than the blue one.
  • specific [spəˈsɪfɪk] adj.
    If something is specific, it is precise or exact.
    Please choose a specific place on the map.
  • tour [tʊə] n.
    A tour is a short trip in which you see many sights.
    I took a tour of Asia and Europe.
  • trip [trɪp] n.
    A trip is a journey to a certain place.
    Ken took a trip to the city yesterday.

value [ˈvaljuː] n.
If something has value, it is worth a lot of money.
Matthew found a treasure of very high value.

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The spider weaved a beautiful web.

“This is my art. This is what I do”, she said as passers by stopped and watched.

“I hope you enjoy my work, I think I am getting close to discovering my signature style”.

The fly flew by oblivious to the art. The spider struck up conversation and talked with high brow. The fly, intimidated, decided to praise the work most easily available to its eyes. “The lines, I see, represent the connections of the living things with life, the center is that spring of life we all crave and search for”, he exclaimed excitedly but with a controlled range, too anxious to sound smart, endearingly failing to the audience of one, but still surprised by itself of what so rapidly had been blurted out, trying at once to remember what it was.

“I am amazed! You sure can see through what I thought was so personal yet tried to convey”, after a thoughtful careful pause, she continued with a friendly but hesitant voice, “I don’t usually allow strangers to do this—I am very protective of my work you see…, but you have won my trust and you should be able to touch my art. Only that way you will really feel its meaning. I have an odd sensation that through your perception you can unearth more things hidden within it than even I could have found.

The limbs of the fly were the missing stroke of genius that would catapult Spider to artistic renown.

The spider proudly traveled around showcasing her work to more of the flies who in turn empowered her craft to insurmountable stature.

I wish I could say that the fly, surviving somehow, realized this and was very, very sad, taking the lesson to heart, but I obviously can’t. I wish I could tell you that remorse filled the spider that brought her to change, but I’d need to ask her and last time I saw her she was but a gulp inside the bird’s throat.

So, what is the moral of this fable, you may ask…

Why, well, it is, of course, that you should beware… of… say, spider-ravenous cold-eyed evil birds destroying artwork, grabbing you from perhaps a leg—just one of all you might have—and toy with you around and gulp you deep down.

So come already and absorb this wisdom that the spiders and flies and the treacherous birds so eagerly want you to listen to.

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PRONUNCIATION OF BIRD SPIDER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BIRD SPIDER

Bird spider is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BIRD SPIDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bird spider

Goliath birdeater

The Goliath birdeater is a spider belonging to the tarantula family, Theraphosidae. It is considered to be the second largest spider in the world, and it may be the largest by mass. It is also called the Goliath bird-eating spider; the practice of calling Theraphosids «bird-eating» derives from an early 18th-century copper engraving by Maria Sybilla Merian that shows one eating a hummingbird, but the term is inaccurate as they do not primarily prey on birds.


Definition of bird spider in the English dictionary

The definition of bird spider in the dictionary is any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America.

Synonyms and antonyms of bird spider in the English dictionary of synonyms

Translation of «bird spider» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BIRD SPIDER

Find out the translation of bird spider to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bird spider from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bird spider» in English.

Translator English — Chinese


鸟蜘蛛

1,325 millions of speakers

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araña pájaro

570 millions of speakers

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पक्षी मकड़ी

380 millions of speakers

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العنكبوت الطيور

280 millions of speakers

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птица паук

278 millions of speakers

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caranguejeira

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali


পাখি মাকড়সা

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French


araignée oiseau

220 millions of speakers

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Labah-labah burung

190 millions of speakers

Translator English — German


Vogelspinne

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese


鳥スパイダー

130 millions of speakers

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조류 거미

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese


Manuk laba-laba

85 millions of speakers

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nhện chim

80 millions of speakers

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பறவை சிலந்தி

75 millions of speakers

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पक्षी कोळी

75 millions of speakers

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Kuş örümcek

70 millions of speakers

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uccello ragno

65 millions of speakers

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pająk ptaka

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian


птиця павук

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian


păianjen pasăre

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek


αράχνη πουλί

15 millions of speakers

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voëls spin

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish


fågel spindel

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian


fugl edderkopp

5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BIRD SPIDER»

The term «bird spider» is used very little and occupies the 163.742 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bird spider

QUOTES WITH «BIRD SPIDER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bird spider.

It’s like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIRD SPIDER»

Discover the use of bird spider in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bird spider and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

1

Confabulario and Other Inventions

Within that box was the personal hell that I would install in my house in order to
destroy, to annul, the other strange hell — man’s. The memorable night when I let
the bird spider loose in my apartment and saw it run like a crab and hide under a
 …

It was named Black Beauty by its captor, Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles
and mammals. It is a relative of the tarantula and is known as the bird spider in its
native Central and South American countries because it often captures and …

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.

Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011

4

Goliath Bird-eating Spiders and Other Extreme Bugs

Super-Sized. Spiders. When you see a spider in your home, often it’s the size of a
gumball . In tropical rain forests, many spiders are larger than baseballs . The
goliath bird-eating spider is as big as a basketball when its legs are spread out .

Deirdre A. Prischmann, 2008

5

Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, …

… been a’ half-starved party, we should have bottled the bird, spider and young
ones, but we were at the end of a live~days’ roam amongst these steep hills,
cOvered with wet grass, without beds or covering, in the height of the rainy
season, …

6

Patterns — Literature, Arts, and Science

(2/8) The bird, spider, and fly represent ______ of what the old lady ate. (3/8) The
cat, bird, spider, and fly represent _____ of what the old lady ate. (4/8 or half) The
dog, cat, bird, spider, and fly represent ______ of what the old lady ate.

7

Spider Physiology and Behaviour: Physiology

Nuclear magnetic resonance studies on huwentoxin-XI from the Chinese bird
spider Ornithoctonus huwena: 15N labeling and Sequence-specific 1H, 15N
nuclear magnetic resonance assignments. Acta Biochim. Biophys. Sin. 38, 457–
466.

8

The Tarantula Keeper’s Guide: Comprehensive Information on …

Common Names of Arachnids does not accept bird spider for any spider, and
accepts birdeater to mean only one species of spider in the world, Theraphosa
blondi, a huge tarantula from northern South America. Tree spider usually refers
to …

Stanley A. Schultz, Marguerite J. Schultz, 2009

9

The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge

Upon these, the Bird Spider preys, and keeps the numbers of these destructive
insects in some manner within bounds. In want of this, its more natural food, the
spider destroys the eggs of the humming-bird, and sometimes the birds
themselves …

10

Concise English Dictionary

n. and adj. bird ‘-catching (bird-catching spider see bird- spider). — bird-cherry a
small wild cherry tree: its astringent fruit; bird’-dog one trained to find or retrieve
birds for hunters: bird’-fancier one who breeds birds, or keeps them for sale.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIRD SPIDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bird spider is used in the context of the following news items.

New bird species discovered in forests of Indonesia

Jurassic bark: ancient Irish trees brought back to life; From left, a female Chinese bird spider; a female tube web spider; and Spiders and the … «Irish Times, Nov 14»

Tarantula found on golf course

… eagles, but in a new avian twist as reported on Wednesday on OE24, a golfer spotted a ‘Vogelspinne’ — known in German as a ‘bird spider‘. «The Local Austria, Jun 14»

‘Reptile Passions’ to open near Dixie Village Shopping Center

… McMillan said, everything from the docile Chilean rose tarantula to the more aggressive Chinese bird spider or Vietnamese Tiger tarantula. «Gaston Gazette, Apr 14»

Street Watch: two arrested after woman stabbed

Police also allegedly seized cannabis, cocaine and methamphetamines as well as the 50cm crocodile, a South American bird spider and an … «The Daily Telegraph, Jan 14»

Crocodile found during raid on Dee Why house

They allegedly seized the 50-centimetre crocodile, as well as an albino python and a South American bird spider. The South American bird … «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 14»

Everything you wanted to know about spiders – but were too afraid …

One of the most aggressive is the Chinese Bird Spider, found in South-East Asia. U is for UK. We have 600 species of spider. The false widow … «Daily Star, Oct 13»

The Big Bang Theory: Was There A Proposal?

It’s someone calling for Sheldon, saying Sheldon thinks he was bitten by a Chinese bird spider. An exasperated Amy tells the caller to put … «Comicbook.com, Feb 13»

Madikwe Safari Lodge: It’s the suite life (with a wild side)

A library of reference books frames glass cases containing live snakes, scorpions and a huge South American bird spider. It’s reality … «Bizcommunity.com, Aug 12»

Animation wins big at Durban festival

The Bird Spider (La Migala) (Spain), directed by Jaime Dezcallar Best South African Short Film Doppelganger (South Africa), directed by … «Channel 24, Jul 12»

The Tarantula, Reappraised

The biggest of the 932 named tarantula species, the Goliath bird spider of South America, is almost a foot across—an undeniably impressive … «Slate Magazine, Mar 12»

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