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spideret

spideret noun: a baby spider.

Noun

spideret (plural spiderets)

  1. (rare) A baby spider.
    • What shrieks and groans of widow spideresses and orphaned spiderets must haunt his guilty slumbers!1830 September 11, Horace Guilford, “The King of the Spiders”, in The Olio; or, Museum of Entertainment, volume VI, number XII, London: […] Shackell and Carfrae, […] Joseph Shackell […], published...
    • See! what a busy region we disturb when we lift this stone! Half-a-dozen scarlet-bodied spiderets, “soldiers,” scampering away in most unmilitary haste to hide under crumbs of brown earth; here a grey-brownish slug, there a jet black one, larger and fatter, put out first one and then another...1885, F. R. Coles, “[Communications.] I. A Leaflet from the Book of Nature.”, in The Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society...

Synonyms of spideret

Forms of spideret

pluralspiderets

Origin of spideret

From spider + -et.

Questions about spideret

What does spideret mean?
Spideret means a baby spider.
What part of speech is spideret?
Spideret is a noun.
What is the plural of spideret?
The plural of spideret is spiderets.

Words near spideret in the dictionary

  1. spiderdom
  2. spidered
  3. spideresque
  4. spideress
  5. spideresses
  6. spideret
  7. spiderets
  8. spiderette
  9. spiderettes
  10. spiderflower
  11. spiderflowers

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