spiderlike
- a word derived from spider.
Example Sentences
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Instead of wielding cool weapons and flashy spells, Gollum has to rely on stealth and spiderlike climbing skills to survive.
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023
In further experiments, the researchers tested their process on other types of virtual robots, such as adding new leg sections to a spiderlike bot and having it relearn how to crawl.
From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2022
In early 2018, Wang and Huang Diying, a researcher at NIGPAS, separately published specimens in Nature Ecology & Evolution with spiderlike bodies trailed by long, scorpionesque tails.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2019
Also suggesting something nefarious: Will’s vision of a monstrous spiderlike being from the Upside Down.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2017
Soon, the invaders had taken over the English countryside using hundred-foot-high fighting machines with spiderlike legs and “long, flexible, glittering tentacles.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
