sheet web

sheet web
noun
an irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks
Hypernyms: ↑spider web, ↑spider's web

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noun
: a more or less extended tissue of web woven irregularly but largely in a single plane by various arachnomorph spiders — compare orb web

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sheet web,
web spun by a sheet-web weaver.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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