"wallcrawler" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wallcrawlers [plural]
Etymology: From wall + crawler. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wall|crawler}} wall + crawler Head templates: {{en-noun}} wallcrawler (plural wallcrawlers)
  1. something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces Categories (topical): Fictional abilities Synonyms: wall-crawler, wall crawler
    Sense id: en-wallcrawler-en-noun-iVkVBKaZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From wall + crawler.",
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        },
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Fictional abilities",
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            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
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            "Society",
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          "ref": "1998, Reptiles, volume 6:",
          "text": "This big wallcrawler has remained somewhat obscure, probably due to its indistinct appearance.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 September 1, Jordan Raphael with Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "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 wallcrawler.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 March 7, Peter David, Spider-Man 3, New York: Pocket Books, pages 171–172:",
          "text": "Sandman looked up and saw the masked face of Spider-Man staring down at him. The wallcrawler was leaning against the rear doors of the armored car, apparently having dropped through the hole that Sandman had created.",
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        {
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