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plural spinnerets
The organ a spider uses to spin its web. quotations examples
Then, suddenly, with her eight legs wide-spread, she lets herself drop straight down, hanging to the line that issues from her spinnerets
1912, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider chapter 10
A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers. examples