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Web-making part of a spider
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spinneret
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"silk-spinning organ of a silkworm or spider," coined 1826, diminutive of spinner .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The organ a spider uses to spin its web. 2 A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spinneret is a device used to extrude a polymer solution or polymer melt to form fibers . Streams of viscous polymer exit via the spinneret into air or liquid leading to a phase inversion which allows the polymer to solidify. The individual polymer chains ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spinneret \Spin"ner*et\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two ...
Usage examples of spinneret.
Lovingly she embraces the cork ball, fondles it with her palpi, fastens it to her spinnerets and thenceforth drags it after her as though she were dragging her own bag.
Earth scientists, and other relatively innocuous subjects for the next hour, and when Hafner escorted Carmen back to the Spinneret camp and her waiting vehicle, she professed herself satisfied with the break from the pressures of her work.
A safety-cord, emitted at the same instant by the spinnerets, keeps the Epeira hanging, swinging in space.
People with lobster claws instead of hands, legs fused or amputated to make room for stingers or spinnerets, heads that in no way matched the bodies they were attached to.
They are often mistaken for funnel-webs, but they have short spinnerets - the little pointy things at the tip of the abdomen.
With horrible quickness the vast bloated body came down and grasped the corpse, the huge abdomen bending around it so that Paks could see cords of silk from the spinnerets twisting around and around.
For a moment one of the tendrils of silk from her under-claw spinnerets stretched out between fingertip and cloth before snapping off and dropping flat against the cloth.
A short distance from the ground, she released the spinnerets and fell the rest of the way, her tremendous weight easily balanced on her eight strong legs.
Bergold was knitting silk from his spinnerets with a tapping rhythm that was driving Chuck mad.
I know were shapechanged used fangs and spinnerets both, as that one did last night.
She saw the spinnerets facing her, and the pulsations that would drive out the poisoned silk.
As the Rooshrike had retrieved the second Spinneret cable and I had already obtained assurances that they would share their test results with us, it seemed redundant and a little ridiculous to waste time with the few boxfuls of equipment we had available.
He's going to suggest to the Astran scientists that a number of American experts be invited to help us decipher the Spinneret controls, and the only reason he's hidden the Directory is to keep me from counterproposing a more international group.