Meaning

2 senses
  1. The organ a spider uses to spin its web.

    Spinnwarze

    паути́нная борода́вкаpautínnaja borodávka

  2. A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
spider organ for web spinning:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
spider organ for web spinning:

Origin

From spinner + -et.

From spinner + -et.

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Forms

plural: spinnerets
Singularspinneret
Pluralspinnerets

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedspinnerule

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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