Tarantula

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

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tarantula.

Proper noun

Tarantula f

1. (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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Tarantula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Tarantula at Index to Organism Names