Definitions for spinneret

spinneret spin·ner·et

Spelling: [spin-uh-ret, spin-uh-ret]
IPA: /ˈspɪn əˌrɛt, ˌspɪn əˈrɛt/

Spinneret is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 431 anagrams from letters in spinneret (eeinnprst).

Definitions for spinneret

noun

  1. an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
  2. a metal plate or cup with tiny holes through which a chemical solution is extruded to form continuous filaments, as of rayon, nylon, or polyester.

Origin of spinneret

First recorded in 1820-30; spinner + -et

Examples for spinneret

The labium or second maxillæ, so large in the moth, serves simply as a spinneret in the caterpillar.

When the Spider has laid her eggs, she begins to work her spinneret once more, but in a different manner.

Each thread in turn is pulled at right angles at its middle, and then fastened by means of the creature's spinneret.

This odd substance is made in an organ called the spinneret, at the very end of the spider's body.

The silk is stiffened with a sort of gum as it comes out of the spinneret.

It is at once seized in the fangs, embraced by the legs and hung on to the spinneret.

The silk-glands whose ducts open on this spinneret are paired convoluted tubes lying alongside the elongate cylindrical stomach.

One draws out the thread from the spinneret, and passes it to the other, which lays it on the radius.

The following are magnified figures of the spinneret of the Cossus, from Lyonnet.

These last open at a small orifice in the labium termed the spinneret (fig. 2, 5).

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