Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An additional or accessory spinning-organ of certain spiders. Also
cribrellum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (
Ciniflonidæ ), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A spinning organ having many fine
pores , situated in front of thespinners in some spiders.
Etymologies
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From Latin cribellum, diminutive of cribrum ‘sieve’.
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Examples
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The researchers, led by Lei Jiang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, looked at the silk made by the cribellate spider (Uloborus walckenaerius), which uses a little comb, or cribellum, to separate fibres and spin them into various kinds.
News 2010
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The researchers, led by Lei Jiang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, looked at the silk made by the cribellate spider (Uloborus walckenaerius), which uses a little comb, or cribellum, to separate fibres and spin them into various kinds.
News 2010
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