"spider-like" meaning in All languages combined

See spider-like on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more spider-like [comparative], most spider-like [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} spider-like (comparative more spider-like, superlative most spider-like)
  1. Alternative form of spiderlike. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: spiderlike
    Sense id: en-spider-like-en-adj-0GrvKBlH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:",
          "text": "A little romance had woven itself into spider-like existence, from her shallow brain, over that incident.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, John Thomas Howell, Marin Flora, page 103:",
          "text": "In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Desert Life, page 31:",
          "text": "My Squadron Leader's crew adopted a family of jerboas and my Troop Corporals chose a black, spider-like monster, about 3 in. long with short legs and enormous jaws, which they called a \"jerrymander\".",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 July 25, Federico Coccolini et al., “The open abdomen, indications, management and definitive closure”, in World Journal of Emergency Surgery: WJES, volume 10, →DOI:",
          "text": "Another implementation of the system was introduced by the AB-Thera (KCI, San Antonio, TX) with the use of spider-like sponge that allow a better fluid drainage and a better wound contraction and with a reported primary fascia closure rate of 89 % [53, 54].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:",
          "text": "Around 70 different species of trigonotarbids have been recognised, mostly from the Carboniferous period, but some representatives are even older than the Rhynie Chert, pushing the origins of spider-like land animals back into the Silurian Period.",
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