arachnoid

arachnoid is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
2. adjective. Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
3. adjective. Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.
4. noun. The arachnoid membrane.
5. noun. One of the Arachnoidea.
6. noun. air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs

   Synonyms: arachnid

7. noun. the middle of the 3 meninges
8. adjective. relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida

   Synonyms: arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery

Synonyms

arachnid, arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery

Common word forms

arachnoids, arachnoidal

Words from these letters

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