Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • . Full of cobwebs.
  • Resembling a cobweb; extremely thin and delicate, like spider's silk or gossamer; covered with delicate tangled hairs like cobweb; arachnoid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb. See arachnoid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb.

Etymologies

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Latin araneosus, from aranea spider, spider's web.

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