Home › Words › S › spideressspideressspideress · noun — A female spider.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, spideress ranks #16,849 of 42,862 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom spider + -ess.nounA female spider.e.g.“What shrieks and groans of widow spideresses and orphaned spiderets must haunt his guilty slumbers!” — 1830 September 11, Horace Guilford, “The King of the Spiders”, in The Olio; or, Museum of Entertainment, volume VI, number XII, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae, […] Joseph Shackell […], published 183Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).