spinnerets

To create the silk, silkworms secrete a fluid, from modified salivary glands, that is pushed through special openings, called spinnerets, on their mouthparts.

The Santa Barbara Independent stories < 2010

These sections of the lower belly are modified into special structures called spinnerets, which are sort of like faucets for silk.

Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009

While modern spiders make silk threads with modified appendages called spinnerets, the fossil animals wove broad sheets of silk from spigots on plates attached to the underside of their bodies.

The Times of India 2009

_ "Spiders are provided at the posterior end with two or three pairs of appendages called spinnerets, which are homologous

Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

Handlers pull and spool strands from each spider's multiple spinnerets.

The gossamer cape: spun by a million spiders 2012

As particles fall or dissolve, new nanowires will be deployed using spider-like spinnerets to seek out newly formed droplets and dust.

Richard Conlin Proposes Radical New 520 Alternatives « PubliCola 2010

They excrete them in different concentrations using specialized structures within their spinnerets.

Eight Maids a'Milking 2010

See the spinnerets—those fingerlike things at the tip of her abdomen?

DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010

Those spinnerets are covered with tiny spigots that can produce all manner of silk—thick, thin, sticky and nonsticky, sheets of silk, you name it.

DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010

We'd spliced in the spider DNA hoping to restructure the four normal teats into spinnerets, but we never expected anything like this.

Eight Maids a'Milking 2010