retiary
adjective
1. net-like
- This work is in retiary, or hanging textures. — Sir Thomas Browne.
2. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; said of certain spiders.
3. Armed with a net; hence, skilful at entangling.
- Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. — Coleridge.
noun
1. (zoology) Any spider that spins webs to catch its prey.