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US
/təˈɹæntʃəɫə, təˈɹæntʃuɫə/
]
[ UK /təɹˈæntjʊlɐ/ ]
[ UK /təɹˈæntjʊlɐ/ ]
NOUN
- large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)
- 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