Zool. [mod.L. a. Gr. θηρίδιον little animal, dim. of θήρ wild beast.] A genus of spiders, many of which spin webs of irregularly intersecting threads.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. V. ii. 261. Spiders…. The most important are—1, the Mygales;… 2, the Clubiones;… 3, the Theridions, especially the Malmignatte of Corsica and Italy, and the Mactans of South America.
