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Spidery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Resembling a spider in form, characteristics, or behavior.

adj. Resembling a spider's web; very fine: spidery handwriting.

adj. Infested with spiders.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Like a spider.

adj. Characterized by many spindly extensions.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Spiderlike.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

Word Usage

"Of course, I would have to keep copious research notes in spidery handwriting in a leather-bound notebook, so that after my successor found the notebook with my remains, my research could go on unabated."

Same Context

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