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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The characteristic organ of the Araneida, or true spiders; the glandular apparatus by which the silky threads forming cobweb are secreted and spun out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.
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