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wallcrawler

wallcrawler noun: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.

Noun

wallcrawler (plural wallcrawlers)

  1. something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
    • This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance.1998, Reptiles, volume 6
    • When DC Comics tweaked Marvel in the 1960s, they almost always did so through Spider-Man: Jerry Lewis became "the Fearless Tarantula" in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, while a teenage DC hero in the "Legion of Superheroes" serials compared himself, quote favorably, to the webbed...2004 September 1, Jordan Raphael with Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, →ISBN, page 119

Forms of wallcrawler

pluralwallcrawlers
alternative formwall-crawler
alternative formwall crawler

Origin of wallcrawler

From wall + crawler.

Questions about wallcrawler

What does wallcrawler mean?
Wallcrawler means something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.
What part of speech is wallcrawler?
Wallcrawler is a noun.
What is the plural of wallcrawler?
The plural of wallcrawler is wallcrawlers.

Words near wallcrawler in the dictionary

  1. wallclock
  2. wallclocks
  3. wallcovering
  4. wallcoverings
  5. wallcrawl
  6. wallcrawler
  7. wallcrawlers
  8. wallcrawling
  9. wallcreeper
  10. wallcreepers
  11. wallcrossing

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