Crossword-Solution: SPINNERET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spinneret | n. | 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 pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SPINNERET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Spider's organ | 1 answer |
| Spider's web-making organ | 1 answer |
| Spider's web-producing organ | 1 answer |
| Web-making part of a spider | 1 answer |
| organ through which silk threads come out of a spider | 1 answer |
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Sentences with SPINNERET (5)
The thread, as a matter of fact, does not flow from the spinneret; it is drawn thence with a certain effort.
She lets herself down and then climbs up again, as we have already seen; but, this time, the thread ends suddenly in a filmy hair- pencil, a tuft, whose parts remain disjoined, just as they come from the spinneret's rose.
Soon after, she hoists him, fastened by a line to her spinneret, and drags him to her hiding-place, where a long banquet will be held.
Being less long than the other two pairs, they are brought into immediate contact with those primordial implements, the mandibles and the spinneret.
The caddis worm, I was saying, with the piece which it has removed held crosswise to its chest, retreats a little way along its suspended hammock until the spinneret is level with the support furnished by the close tangle of rootlets.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1995–2016).