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spiderlet

spiderlet noun: a baby spider.

Noun

spiderlet (plural spiderlets)

  1. A baby spider.
    • The most curious of all are the ground spiders like the Lycosae which drag the egg sac around attached to the posterior end of the abdomen, or in some cases held by the chelicerae. When these latter hatch the young spiderlets climb on to the mother and let her carry them about.1947 May, Walter Janer, “[Biology] The Life of Spiders”, in Bulletin of the American Association of Jesuit Scientists, Eastern Section, volume XXIV, number 4, page 112
    • The giant orb-weaving spider Nephila clavipes stands guard over her eggs, which are fastened to a leaf. Until the spiderlets hatch, she lets her 8-foot web go untended.1960, Ralph Buchsbaum, Lorus J[ohnson] Milne, with Mildred Buchsbaum and Margery Milne, “The Spiders and Their Kin (Class Arachnida)”, in Living Invertebrates of the World (The World of Nature...
    Synonyms:
    spideret, spiderling
  2. (rare) A stolon of a spider plant.
    • Horticulturists know that a pampered spider-plant will not produce its offshoot stolon (its spiderlets); only when its soil is not rich and fertilizer is withheld (i.e., the spider-plant feels starved and threatened) will it start producing stolon in profusion.1983, S[hlomo] Giora Shoham, “[Replenish the Earth and Subdue It] Da Capo: The Next Generation”, in Sex as Bait: Eve, Casanova, and Don Juan, Brisbane, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN...
    • If you have a spider plant, prune off spiderlets (miniature plants or offsets at the branch tips), place them in water until they show roots, and then transplant. […] Grow more plants by rooting spiderlets (the mother plant’s extensions) in soil or water.1998, Bill Marken, The Editors of the National Gardening Association, Container Gardening For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 167 and 170

Examples of spiderlet in a sentence

  • When little spiders, or spiderlets, hatch, they look like full-grown spiders except that they are smaller and are very pale.1968, Bertha Morris Parker, “Spiders”, in The New Golden Treasury of Natural History, New York, N.Y.: Golden Press, Western Publishing...
  • On a day when the breeze is gentle the spiderlets climb to the top of a grass stem and spin their own hang glider from a silken thread.1980, Dennis L. Furnell, “May”, in The Country Book of the Year, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, →ISBN, page 140:
  • At one point he had even decided it was better to die in flames than to hang here awaiting dozens of hungry spiderlets—but he hadn’t been able to conjure up the fire spell at all.1984, Robert E[dward] Vardeman, Iron Tongue (Cenotaph Road; 4), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN, page 96:
  • The image of flames as countless nimble red spiderlets is especially effective.1984, Valerie Z. Nollan, “The Theme of Fire in Leonov’s Prose: 1922-1953”, in Russian Language Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 131, page...

Synonyms of spiderlet

Forms of spiderlet

pluralspiderlets

Origin of spiderlet

From spider + -let.

Questions about spiderlet

What does spiderlet mean?
Spiderlet means a baby spider.
How do you use spiderlet in a sentence?
When little spiders, or spiderlets, hatch, they look like full-grown spiders except that they are smaller and are very pale.
What part of speech is spiderlet?
Spiderlet is a noun.
What is the plural of spiderlet?
The plural of spiderlet is spiderlets.

Words near spiderlet in the dictionary

  1. spideriness
  2. spidering
  3. spiderish
  4. spiderkind
  5. spiderless
  6. spiderlet
  7. spiderlets
  8. spiderlike
  9. spiderling
  10. spiderlings
  11. spiderly

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