cribellumn.
/krɪˈbɛləm/ Zoology.
An additional spinning organ, having numerous fine pores, situated in front of the spinnerets in certain spiders.
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cribellum1888
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 524 In a few Spiders a chitinoid plate, the cribellum, lies in front of the spinnerets.
1958 W. S. Bristowe World of Spiders viii. 79 Three families of British spiders have a cribellum and a calamistrum.
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ˈcribellate adj. (also 'cribellated) having a cribellum.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > of or belonging to Araneida > web-spinning > having additional spinning organ
cribellate1926
1926 T. H. Savory Brit. Spiders 97 The British cribellated spiders.
1951 G. H. Locket & A. F. Millidge Brit. Spiders I. iii. 28 The presence of the cribellum is of importance in classification and the whole group is usefully divided into cribellate and ecribellate spiders.
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