Lexic.us

2. Noun. Something that resembles a spider's net in either its mesh like, entrapping or fragileness quality. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To connect or cover as if with spiderwebs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spiderweb

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiderweb

Literary usage of Spiderweb

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
""spiderweb metropolises extend concentrically around a dominant (capital) ... In the spiderweb metropolis the core city is the physical centre of a radial ..."

2. SAS/GRAPH 9.1 Reference by SAS Institute (2004)
"spiderweb | SPIDER displays lines connecting the points where tick marks would be instead ... If there is an axis statement along with the spiderweb option, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"His father, after an hour's search, found a fly caught in a spiderweb, far across the room, whose struggles no one else could hear. ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"spiderweb Houseleek— Sempervivum arachnoideum. 5. montanum, Linn. Height 6 in.: barren rosettes 1K-2 in. across, the new ones few, and borne on red pilose ..."

5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1887)
"Wings broad, bare, characteristically marked by numerous folds between the veins, giving a netted, spiderweb-like appearance ..."

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