Word Meanings - SPIDERLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a spider. Shak.

SPIDERWORT
An American endogenous plant , with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
SPIDER
Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which
SPIDER WEB; SPIDER'S WEB
The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
SPIDERLIKE
Like a spider. Shak.
SPIDERED
Infested by spiders; cobwebbed. Wolcott.
SPIDER STITCH
A stitch in lace making used to fill in open spaces with threads resembling a cobweb.
BALLOONING SPIDER
A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
SEA SPIDER
Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider. Any pycnogonid.
WATER SPIDER
An aquatic European spider which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form