zebra-spiderhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zebra-spider_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezebra spider, n.
Revised 2018

zebra spidernoun

  1. 1806–
    Any of several striped spiders; esp. a small jumping spider, Salticus scenicus (family Salticidae), found throughout the Holarctic.
    In quot. 1806: the wasp spider, Argiope bruennichi.
    1. 1806
      Epeira fasciata... L'Araignée zébrée. Die Zebra-Spinne. The Zebra Spider.
      C. A. Walckenaer, Hist. Nat. des Aranéides iii. Pl. 1 (heading)
    2. 1866
      Next to the garden-spider, the hunting or zebra spider is the most common.
      Hours at Home August 331/1
    3. 1966
      The commonest of these [jumping spiders] was banded black and white like a zebra... Zebra spiders are able to leap..in an eighteen-inch arc.
      C. Sweeney, Scurrying Bush vi. 87
    4. 2014
      Another species I spotted was the zebra spider jumping from stone to stone.
      Western Daily Press (Nexis) 15 April 16

Originally published as part of the entry for zebra, n.

zebra, n. was revised in June 2018.