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名詞

spinneret (plural spinnerets)

1. The organ a spider uses to spin its web.
   • 1912, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider chapter 10

     Then, suddenly, with her eight legs wide-spread, she lets herself drop straight down, hanging to the line that issues from her spinnerets

2. A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.

関連する語

• spinnerette
• spinnerule

アナグラム

• in present