spidery
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ adjective ] (zoology) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida
Synonyms Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)The debris of his other careers was piled everywhere ; a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window_sill , vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting_out into the air , masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass_through a whole house , visible all_the_way up through wire gratings on each floor . |
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