spiderlike


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Synonyms for spiderlike

relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

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Nolan is talking about varicose veins, those bumpy, twisted, spiderlike structures that can crawl up your legs.
Spiderlike lamps that appear to cling to the surface of the wall with sucker-style feet, their invisible LED panels illuminating the paintwork, are contrasted with the more complex geometric design of a floor lamp consisting of six interlocking rectangles of steel, sprouting incongruously from a heavy concrete base.
Daily as I encounter these creatures - with their spiderlike eyelashes, thrusting busts, teetering high heels and vacuous expressions - I despair that generations of women sacrificed so much in the battle for equality only for their gift to be squandered by bubble-heads.
Qatar's spiderlike web of influence is growing at a rapid pace and spreading across the globe.
A striking image figuring the inner devastation, which Plath sometimes uses for the making of her poems, is that of the menstrual blood: "Spiderlike, I spin mirrors/Loyal to my image,/ uttering nothing but blood--/Taste it, dark red!/ And my forest/My funeral,/And this hill and this/Gleaming with mouths of corpses" ("Three Women").
Soon afterwards, behind Bart, a giant tartan spiderlike bagpipe with Willie's head on it rises from the sandbox.
How could he sleep with a spiderlike thing lurking in the corner?” Aabakken felt he must redo the job “I had to take a radical new approach.
When bitten by a genetically modify ed spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spiderlike abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
But there is something exceeding the allocation of the roles and the intentional coordination between the regime's spiderlike "ramifications." Some are talking about multiple decision makers and the absence of a centralized security-political plan within the regime to face the opposition.
When recalling my recent trip to Governor's Island, I told di Suvero how exuberantly children were scaling the spiderlike legs of "She" (1978), which includes a swinging bed and a hanging oil drum (that once upon a time, used to spin).
Intrigued by the "[la] natura tentacolare, aracnoidea dell'oggetto del mio studio" ("spiderlike web") and by the "infinita varieta ed infinita ripetizione" ("infinite variety and infinite repetition') of his own study, Calvino maintained that folk and fairy tales embrace all of human experience in the form of a "catalogo dei destini che possono darsi a un uomo e a una donna" ("catalog of the potential destinies of men and women') (FI 11).
The novel moves spiderlike from the prisoner's damaged limbs and eyes to attach threads to other manifestations of physical decay in humans and their environments evident in the slave collaborator's and Irene's stories.
Symptoms include nausea, lack of appetite, vomiting, fatigue, abdominal pain and tenderness, spiderlike blood vessels, and increased bleeding times.
PEACOCKS on lawns, spiderlike leaves in the kitchen and the weather in Carmarthen are just some of the barmy 999 calls that prompted a Welsh police force to introduce a new non-emergency number.