spiderlike
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˈspaɪdərˌlaɪk/
:
similar a una araña
- Slimy, tentacled, spiderlike creatures that only some maniac could have imagined.
- spiderlike creature
Examples
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This was a much-enjoyed game of sorting alien smells by a private category: this smell is spiderlike, this one is plantlike, this one is purple petal, this one is white, and the familiar, clear note of open water sings through them all.
Fiction book (1999) -
As the ceretridon quieted, several piercing chirps sounded from a nearby pagoda tree as a spiderlike silacopod called for a mate.
Fiction book (1998) -
Then, with slow, spiderlike movements, the bat crept across the floor and began to climb the shelving.
Fiction book (1992) -
She knew how to kiss, her hand on his neck and squeezing it a little, and then fingers climbing up the back of his head almost in a spiderlike way, but only in the way the spider moves; nothing about being trapped or any of the other bad spider associations.
Fiction book (1997) -
He refused to take his eyes off the creature, who smiled at him, showing fangs, and leaned casually against the wall, long fingers, spiderlike, grazing the sword hilt at its side.
Fiction book (1992) -
Spider mites are just what their name says they are: spiderlike arthropods.
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Then, with slow, spiderlike movements, the bat crept across the floor and began to climb the shelving.
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Up close, it actually looked very spiderlike, with compound eyes, but six instead of eight legs and seemingly no segments—a big hairy ball maybe half a meter across.
Synonyms
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6.4
Thin and delicate like a spider's web or legs
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9.8
Looking like a spider or 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
Having the shape of a spider or spider web
Like a spider or like a spider's web
Relating to animals like spiders and scorpions
Shaped like a spider or a spider's web
How Spider-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spiderlike is simply spider + -like, where spider names the animal with many legs and webs and -like means 'similar to'. So, spiderlike describes something that looks or moves 'like a spider'.