Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a spider.
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- adjective Resembling a
spider .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is very tall and long of limb and tends to hunch over, making him seem very spiderlike when he moves.
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Once again a horrible image of Nori, scampering spiderlike, entered her mind.
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But while Slaine had been occupied, the other had begun crawling spiderlike up the tree for her.
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His flashbeam picked out a thing that scuttled on spiderlike legs, a steel carapace and arms ending in sword blades.
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The assailant scurried away in the dark, spiderlike, and Swift had only a quick glimpse of him in a sudden beam of moonlight as he got to his feet and ran.
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Once again a horrible image of Nori, scampering spiderlike, entered her mind.
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Mr. Renfield became spiderlike, his body covered with spiny hairs, eight black eyes appearing on his head: two large ones at the front, two smaller ones on either side, then four more behind.
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They were described as “vast spiderlike machines, nearly a hundred feet high, capable of the speed of an express train, and able to shoot out a beam of intense heat.”
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Otto guessed that they must be sensory arrays, but the spiderlike eye clusters did nothing to improve the machines sinister appearance.
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He peered through a gap in a hedge and spied a pair of creatures, one spiderlike, the other a huge toad, scuttling and hopping down the street.
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