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calamistrum
A row of hairs on the back legs of certain spiders, which are used to comb out silk produced by the cribellum or spinnerets in some spiders, through which the emerging silk is combed.

Spinnerets are any of various tubular structures from which spiders and certain insect larvae, such as silkworms, secrete the silk threads from which they form webs or cocoons.

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