araneous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin araneosus, from aranea (“spider, spider's web”).
Adjective edit
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 edit
araneose — see araneose
References edit
- “araneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.