araneous

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Etymology

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

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araneous (comparative more araneous, superlative most araneous)

  1. 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

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