banana spider

American  

noun

1. a large, brown and yellow nonvenomous crab spider, Heteropoda venatoria, seen on the walls of buildings in the tropics, sometimes transported to other regions in shipments of bananas.

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Example Sentences

The Brazilian wandering spider has a tendency to hide in banana bunches or plantations and is occasionally found as a stowaway within shipments of bananas, hence its other name – banana spider.

From The Guardian

The boys also learned about things they may not have wanted to, like how big a banana spider can seem when it accidentally lands on your chest, how yellow an animal’s eyes can look in a midnight-dark forest and how nasty a summer swarm of Georgia mosquitoes can be.

From New York Times

The wandering spider, commonly known as a banana spider, was spotted crawling out of the fruit in Asda Chesser on Tuesday.

From BBC