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Definition of Spiderlike
1. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida.
Category relationships: Zoological Science, Zoology
Derivative terms: Arachnida, Arachnoid, Spider
Partainyms: Class Arachnida, Class Arachnida
Definition of Spiderlike
1. a. Like a spider.
Definition of Spiderlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a spider. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiderlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiderlike
Literary usage of Spiderlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... legs long, giving a spiderlike aspect to these big nymphs; the tenth abdominal
segment well exposed, not telescoped in the apex of the ninth segment; ..."
2. The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. Shepherd (1919)
"No longer, to be sure, an abode of Arcadian seclusion as in colonial times, or
a sort of territorial cobweb from the center of which a spiderlike Francia ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1912)
"... of thought which ignores the natural sciences and, spiderlike, spins a world-
conception out of pure thought derived from the thinker's subjectivity. ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1881)
"... the olden time was not only the mover and conductor of his floating citadel,
he was in a great degree its constructor; spiderlike he wove his own web. ..."
5. The Spider and the Fly: Together with an Attributed Interlude Entitled by John Heywood (1908)
"... Namely, the fly for the spider's part crowing With spiderlike spiteful words,
as hot and high As he had been the spider, and th'other the fly. ..."
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