Definition of web

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Web (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.

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Web :: Web (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
Fleece :: Fleece (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Parachute :: Parachute (n.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister..
Cobweb :: Cobweb (n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
Web :: Web (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter..
Flamingo :: Flamingo (n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum..
Yapock :: Yapock (n.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum..
Water Mouse :: Water mouse () Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodents found in Australia..
Web :: Web (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom..
Vane :: Vane (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
Fissipedia :: Fissipedia (n. pl.) A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia..
Telary :: Telary (a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary..
Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight..
Coulomb :: Coulomb (n.) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. Formerly called weber..
Palmiped :: Palmiped (a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl..
Pelican :: Pelican (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored..
Spinnerule :: Spinneret (n.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets..
Webeye :: Webeye (n.) See Web, n., 8..
Vagantes :: Vagantes (p. pl.) A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey..
Syndesmography :: Syndactylous (a.) Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial..
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