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tarantula

[ US /təˈɹæntʃəɫə, təˈɹæntʃuɫə/ ]
[ UK /təɹˈæntjʊlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)
  2. large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites

How To Use tarantula In A Sentence

  • In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed. From Guyana to Guiana
  • He's now milking tarantulas for their venom, and has recently been granted a licence to export that venom.
  • An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.
  • Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world.
  • tarantism," which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed. From Guyana to Guiana
  • The Cape is also infested by scorpions, whose sting is little less virulent than a snake-bite; and by the spider called the tarantula, which is extremely dreaded. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852
  • Tarantulas, a group of spiders, belong to the family Theraphosidae of the phylum arthropoda. Undefined
  • `Peik wasn't a fly, though he might have been a tarantula or a particularly vicious cobra ready to strike to kill. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
  • The minister's tarantula has been removed from the building as the worker has arachnophobia. The Sun
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