Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- . Full of cobwebs.
- Resembling a cobweb; extremely thin and delicate, like spider's silk or gossamer; covered with delicate tangled hairs like cobweb; arachnoid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb. See
arachnoid .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Extremely thin and delicate, like a
cobweb .
Etymologies
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Latin araneosus, from aranea spider, spider's web.
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