spider-like

English

Adjective

spider-like (comparative more spider-like, superlative most spider-like)

1. Alternative form of spiderlike.
   • 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., : Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:

     A little romance had woven itself into spider-like existence, from her shallow brain, over that incident.

   • 1949, John Thomas Howell, Marin Flora, page 103:

     In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.

   • 1965, J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Desert Life, page 31:

     My Squadron Leader's crew adopted a family of jerboas and my Troop Corporals chose a black, spider-like monster, about 3 in. long with short legs and enormous jaws, which they called a "jerrymander".

   • 2015 July 25, Federico Coccolini et al., “The open abdomen, indications, management and definitive closure”, in World Journal of Emergency Surgery: WJES‎, volume 10, →DOI:

     Another implementation of the system was introduced by the AB-Thera (KCI, San Antonio, TX) with the use of spider-like sponge that allow a better fluid drainage and a better wound contraction and with a reported primary fascia closure rate of 89 % [53, 54].

   • 2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

     Around 70 different species of trigonotarbids have been recognised, mostly from the Carboniferous period, but some representatives are even older than the Rhynie Chert, pushing the origins of spider-like land animals back into the Silurian Period.