transparent; delicate; like a spider's web
• (a.) Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid.
A·ra'ne·ous (-ŭs) adjective [ Latin araneosus , from aranea spider, spider's web.] Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid . Derham.