Test of second stage generally resembling that of the adult, but smaller and less conical, and more tinged with green; and at the edge a number of short spinneret tubes may be seen protruding.
With several divisions: a term applied to the spinneret orifices of some insects, distinguishing them from "simple" orifices, which show only a single tube.
On the skin are a number of large oval spots which appear to be the orifices of spinneret tubes.
Round the edge of the body a row of figure-of-8 spinneret orifices; on the dorsal surface many circular spinnerets and a number of protruding tubes.
On the edge also are a number of protruding spinneret tubes, glassy, white, cylindrical, either curved or straight: a few of these tubes protrude on the surface of the back.
The skin is divided into segments corresponding with those of the test, the divisions being marked by lines of spinneret orifices which are small and simple.
The test is divided by narrow lines of minute spots, corresponding to the spinneret orifices of the insect, into rows of pentagonal or hexagonal segments.
It has, like the spiders, a spinneret and a reservoir of liquid silk with which, as it outgrows its baby state, it can spin its own arbor of tough silk fibers and hide itself from view while it is changing to a butterfly.
The silk comes from a spinneret which is just behind the jaws and is about the color of thin starch paste.
It twists round in its sheath; it adopts without inconvenience whatever position it pleases, so as to bring its spinneret full face with the point to be gummed.
The caddis worm, I was saying, with the piece which it has removed held crosswise to its chest, retreats a little way along its suspended hammock until the spinneretis level with the support furnished by the close tangle of rootlets.
As soon as it leaves the spinneret it becomes the thread we call silk, which being drawn through two orifices is necessarily double through its whole length.
The three which are clustered together on the posterior spinneret do not form silk at all, that is, the material they emit does not harden on exposure to the air but remains fluid and adhesive.
The posterior spinneret is divided very obliquely into two joints, so that the terminal joint extends much lower down on the inner than on the outer side.
The lower spigot (b) on the middlespinneret often assists in laying down a foundation line when extra strength is required.
The anteriorspinneret (that nearest the head end of the animal) is a sort of cone, divided into a large basal joint and a small terminal joint.
The median spinneret has three spigots, two at the tip and one on the inner side (fig.
We do not recollect that naturalists have ventured to assign any cause for this very remarkable multiplicity of the spinnerules of spiders, so different from the simple spinneret of caterpillars.
The notion of her pressing the spinneret with her feet must be a mere fancy; at least it is not countenanced by anything which we have observed.
The following are magnified figures of the spinneret of the Cossus, from Lyonnet.
The spider, when wishing to inhale the air, rises to the surface, with its body still submersed, and only the part containing the spinneret rising just to the surface, when it briskly opens and moves its four teats.
Reaumur conceived that this spinneret had two orifices; but Lyonnet ascertained this to be a mistake, the two silk tubes uniting into one before they reach the orifice.
From the structure of the oral organs of these animals, the silk could not conveniently be furnished by the mouth; the Allwise Creator has therefore instructed and fitted them to render it by a spinneret at the other extremity of the body.
The spinneret of the Cossus is figured by Lyonnet Anatom.
By the continued application of the creature's spinneret this barrier is made gradually thicker and higher, till at last the overhanging sides meet and the caterpillar is inclosed in its self-constructed prison.
The labium or second maxillæ, so large in the moth, serves simply as a spinneret in the caterpillar.
The silk-glands whose ducts open on thisspinneret are paired convoluted tubes lying alongside the elongate cylindrical stomach.
The second maxillae form a plate-like labium on whose surface projects the spinneret which is usually regarded as a modified hypopharynx (fig.
When the Spider has laid her eggs, she begins to work her spinneret once more, but in a different manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spinneret" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
