Arachnoid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Anatomy Of or relating to a delicate membrane enclosing the spinal cord and brain.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or resembling arachnids.
  • adj. Covered with or consisting of thin, soft, entangled hairs or fibers resembling those of a cobweb or spider's web.
  • n. See arachnid.
  • n. Anatomy A delicate membrane that encloses the spinal cord and brain and lies between the pia mater and dura mater.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Relating to spiders.
  • adj. Relating to or resembling spider webs.
  • adj. Relating to the arachnoid mater, the middle layer of the meninges, the three membranes that protect the brain.
  • n. An arachnid
  • n. The arachnoid mater, the middle layer of the meninges, the three membranes that protect the brain
  • n. A round network of fractures in the crust of Venus
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
  • adj. Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
  • adj. Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.
  • n. The arachnoid membrane.
  • n. One of the Arachnoidea.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the Arachnida; arachnidan.
  • Like or likened to a cobweb: applied, in anatomy— to the arachnoid of the brain (see II.);
  • to the hyaloid membrane or arachnoid of the eye (see II.).
  • n. A kind of fossil madrepore.
  • n. In anatomy, the serous membrane enveloping the brain and spinal cord; the middle one of the three cerebrospinal meninges, between the dura mater and the pia mater.
  • n. An old and disused name of the hyaline or hyaloid membrane within the eyeball, especially of that portion of it which contributes to form the capsule of the crystalline lens.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
  • n. the middle of the 3 meninges
  • adj. relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    meninges    meninx   
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    cobweblike    cobwebby   
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