araneous

English

Etymology

From Latin araneosus, from aranea (“spider, spider's web”).

Adjective

araneous (comparative more araneous, superlative most araneous)

Extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb.
Synonym: araneose

the araneous membrane of the eye
- 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
  The next thing I shall take notice, of will relate to the humours of the eye, and that only concerning the mechanism of the crystalline humour; not its incomparable transparency; nor its exact lenticular from; nor its curious araneous membrane

Translations

araneose — see araneose

References

“araneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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