SPIDERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spidery mean? 

• SPIDERY (adjective)
  The adjective SPIDERY has 1 sense:

1. relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

  Familiarity information: SPIDERY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIDERY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

arachnidian; arachnoid; spiderlike; spiderly; spidery

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Derivation:

spider (predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey)

 Context examples 

But you couldn't get along without masters of some sort, and there arose a new set of masters—not the great, virile, noble men, but the shrewd and spidery traders and money-lenders.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And they enslaved you over again—but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by wheedling and cajolery and lies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Instinct made him step on the accelerator with the double purpose of overtaking Daisy and leaving Wilson behind, and we sped along toward Astoria at fifty miles an hour, until, among the spidery girders of the elevated, we came in sight of the easygoing blue coupé.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)