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silk gland

silk gland (plural silk glands)


noun 
Definition:
 
gland of insect or spider: a salivary gland of a cocoon-spinning insect or an abdominal gland of a web-spinning spider that produces a viscous liquid that is expelled in a thread and polymerizes into a filament

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