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Definition of Spinnerets
1. spinneret [n] - See also: spinneret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinnerets
Literary usage of Spinnerets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1865)
"... attention of naturalists to the aid afforded by the binocular microscope in
the determination of the external forms of the spinnerets of spiders, which, ..."
2. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The hind spinnerets usually consist each of two segments, but sometimes of three
or even four segments; the middle spinnerets are not segmented; ..."
3. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1911)
"One of the two middle spinnerets of the common garden spider {Epeira diadema},
to show the three kinds of spouts or spigots (one thousand in all) ..."
4. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1898)
"and antennae, and bears a very slight resemblance to a living insect. It is shown
in fig. 4a. Fig. 4£i, shows the spinnerets. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1886)
"... 25 to 28 in number, situate at each side upon the inner surface and at the
base of the first joints of the inferior spinnerets, closely over the ..."
6. Flashlights on Nature by Grant Allen (1905)
"... her geometrical web ; that was merely her hunting-net ; her private residence
consisted of a snug little cell NO. 4.—BACK VIEW OF ROSALIND'S Spinnerets. ..."
7. First Book of Zoölogy by Edward Sylvester Morse (1875)
"As the thread issues from the spinnerets, the spider guides it with its hind pair
of feet, and these are curiously adapted for the purpose not only of ..."
8. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"Two slightly ramified •caeca, varicose at intervals, and which terminate, by two
short excretory ducts, in the middle spinnerets. Most Araneae have three ..."
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