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Definition of 'tarantula' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) tarantula
any of several large, hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae, as Aphonopelma chalcodes, of the southwestern U.S., having a painful but not highly venomous bite.

2.  tarantula
a large wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula, of S Europe, having a bite once thought to be the cause of tarantism.

Etymology:  (1555–65; < ML < It tarantola)

Definition of 'tarantula' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) European wolf spider, tarantula, Lycosa tarentula
large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)

2. (noun) tarantula
large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites


Definition of 'tarantula' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) tarantula
any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale


Translation of 'tarantula' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: any of several types of large hairy spider, some poisonous.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: tarantula Arabic flag Arabic: رُتَيْلاء: عَنْكَبوت سام Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: тарантула
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tarântula Czech flag Czech: tarantule German flag German: die Tarantel
Danish flag Danish: tarantel; fugleedderkop Greek flag Greek: ταραντούλα Spanish flag Spanish: tarántula
Estonian flag Estonian: tarantel Farsi flag Farsi: رتیل Finnish flag Finnish: taranteli
French flag French: tarantule Hebrew flag Hebrew: טַרַנטוּלָה Hindi flag Hindi: बडी मकडी़
Croatian flag Croatian: tarantula Hungarian flag Hungarian: tarantulapók Indonesian flag Indonesian: tarantula
Icelandic flag Icelandic: tarantúla Italian flag Italian: tarantola Japanese flag Japanese: 舞踏ぐも
Korean flag Korean: 땅거미의 일종 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: tarantula Latvian flag Latvian: tarantuls
Malay flag Malay: tarantula Dutch flag Dutch: tarantula Norwegian flag Norwegian: tarantell
Polish flag Polish: tarantula Portuguese flag Portuguese: tarântula Romanian flag Romanian: tarantulă
Russian flag Russian: тарантул Slovak flag Slovak: tarantula Slovenian flag Slovenian: tarantola
Serbian flag Serbian: tarantula Swedish flag Swedish: tarantel Thai flag Thai: แมงมุมพิษตัวใหญ่ในตระกูล
Turkish flag Turkish: zehirliörümcek, tarantula Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 鳥蛛, 狼蛛 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: тарантул
Urdu flag Urdu: ايک قسم کي زہريلي مکڑي Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nhện đen Chinese flag Chinese: 塔兰图拉毒蛛,鸟蛛,狼蛛

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