Tarantula

See also: tarantula, tarántula, tarântula, tarantúla, and tarantulă

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Tarantula f

(obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Lycosidae – a disused grouping of spiders, sometimes a subgenus of Lycosa, now in other genera of Lycosidae.

See also

Tarentula

References

“Tarantula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Tarantula at Index to Organism Names

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