Jump to: General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, Phrases 

We found 24 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word spinneret: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "spinneret" is defined. General (22 matching dictionaries) spinneret: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] spinneret: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] spinneret: Wordnik [home, info] spinneret: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Spinneret, Spinneret: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Wiktionary [home, info] spinneret: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] spinneret: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] spinneret: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Dictionary.com [home, info] spinneret: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] Spinneret (Timothy Zahn), Spinneret (polymers), Spinneret (spider), Spinneret: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Spinneret: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] Spinneret: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info] spinneret: Free Dictionary [home, info] spinneret: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] spinneret: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info] spinneret: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) spinneret: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (1 matching dictionary) spinneret: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (spinneret) (n.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets. (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.) ▸ Word origin