OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 46420

cribellum

/kɹɪˈbɛləm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cribelo
A spinning organ having many fine pores, situated in front of the spinners in some araneomorph spiders.
1996: some groups of spiders have a sieve-like plate, the cribellum, just in front of the spinners. — Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 1…
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