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Spider web   /spˈaɪdər wɛb/   Listen
Spider web

noun
1.
A web resembling the webs spun by spiders.  Synonym: spider's web.
2.
A web spun by spiders to trap insect prey.  Synonym: spider's web.





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"Spider web" Quotes from Famous Books



... simply stroking a quartz fiber with a straw wetted with castor oil (Fig. 9); it is rather larger than a spider line; but I have made beaded threads, using a fine fiber, quite indistinguishable from a real spider web, and they have the further similarity that they are just ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various


Words linked to "Spider web" :   cobweb, spider's web, web, entanglement, orb web, sheet web, funnel web


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