house spider

British  

noun

1. any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider

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Example Sentences

Because of its size, it’s usually the giant house spider that most people seem to see in their homes, but it’s really just the most visible of the 30 or so species of house spiders common in Washington.

From Seattle Times

Although he does say it's "highly likely" that if a house spider or daddy-long-legs does come crawling in through your window, it's because one of your neighbours has chucked it out of theirs.

From BBC

“And it turns out that there are all these endemic New Zealand indoor species, like the Wellington house spider, that I’ve never heard of.”

From New York Times

But the velvet spider genome, together with that of the orb weaver and the house spider, has exposed an unexpected variety of silk genes—"a lot more than we thought," Coddington says.

From Science Magazine

Combing through a genome database revealed that the closest known matches to the house spider's latrotoxin genes are bacterial genes.

From Science Magazine