spinnerule

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English

Etymology

From spinner +‎ -ule.

Noun

spinnerule (plural spinnerules)

  1. (zoology) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spinnerule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)