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Meaning
Noun
●
Any of the large,
hairy
New World
spiders
comprising
the family Theraphosidae.
●
A
member
of certain other
groups
of
spiders
,
generally
characterized
by large
size
,
hairiness
, or
membership
of
infraorder
Mygalomorphae to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
●
In Mygalomorph spiders:
A
species
of
wolf spider
, Lycosa
tarantula
,
native
to
southern
Europe, the
mildly
poisonous
bite
of which was once
thought
to cause an
extreme
urge
to
dance
(tarantism).
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