spider vs Araneus cavaticus

Araneus cavaticus vs spider

spider and Araneus cavaticus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spider	Yes	No	No	No
Araneus cavaticus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Araneus cavaticus is a hyponym of spider; that is, Araneus cavaticus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spider:

spider: predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
Araneus cavaticus: an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily

Other hyponyms of spider include orb-weaving spider, Argiope aurantia, black and gold garden spider, barn spider, Aranea diademata, garden spider, comb-footed spider, theridiid, black widow, Latrodectus mactans, tarantula, hunting spider, wolf spider, trap-door spider.

spider (noun)	Araneus cavaticus (noun)
predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey	an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily
a skillet made of cast iron
a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

Difference between spider and Araneus cavaticus

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