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Synonyms for tarantula

Grammar : Noun
Spell : tuh-ran-chuh-luh
Phonetic Transcription : təˈræn tʃə lə

Définition of tarantula

Origin :
  • 1560s, "wolf spider," (Lycos tarantula), from Medieval Latin tarantula, from Italian tarantola, from Taranto "Taranto," seaport city in southern Italy in the region where the spiders are frequently found, from Latin Tarentum, from Greek Taras (genitive Tarantos; perhaps from Illyrian darandos "oak"). Its bite is only slightly poisonous. Popularly applied to other great hairy spiders, especially the genus Mygale, native to the warmer regions of the Americas (first so called in 1794).
  • As in arachnid : noun spider
Example sentences :
  • Good Indian shook off the touch as if it were a tarantula upon him.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • It didn't take me long to find that my mine was the 'Tarantula.'
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • Two hours later they were again on the Tarantula making for Hobart.
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang
  • There were many scorpions and centipedes, with once in a while a tarantula.
  • Extract from : « The Forbidden Trail » by Honor Willsie
  • Mizgir, a venomous spider, like the Tarantula, found in the Kirghiz Steppes.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • It is supposed to cure the bite of the tarantula, hence the furious tempo.
  • Extract from : « The Art of Stage Dancing » by Ned Wayburn
  • Ha, that is the Tarantula dance; Maestro Paolo foots it bravely!
  • Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • The young man leaped to his feet as if a tarantula had bitten him.
  • Extract from : « Edmond Dants » by Edmund Flagg
  • I write to tell you of my success with the tarantula in Young People No. 29.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 » by Various
  • This is what Dick Adams dreamed that a tarantula said to him.
  • Extract from : « The Nursery, February 1878, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 » by Various

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