spider-shaped
- adjective
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- The children were excited to see a spider-shaped piñata filled with candy at the birthday celebration.
Examples
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The speck gradually resolved into a spider-shaped vessel with a round body and eight extended legs, looking like S'har000 warning us that a hug was on its way.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Halloween decoration was a large, spider-shaped balloon that hung from the ceiling.
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She wore a spider-shaped brooch that caught everyone's attention at the party.
Synonyms
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Shaped or moving like a spider with long thin legs
Shaped like a spider or a spider's web
Having the shape of a spider or spider web
Like a spider or like a spider's web
Like a spider in look or movement with long thin parts reaching out
Having thin, long legs or parts and moving like a spider
How Spider-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word spider-shaped is made of two parts: spider, the eight-legged animal, and -shaped, meaning 'having the form of', like in heart-shaped. So something spider-shaped looks like or has the form of a spider.