tarantula
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6.5
- noun
- /təˈræntʃələ/
- The next thing I know a massive tarantula is crawling across the carpet in front of my feet.
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- And I think tarantula was the bad ingredient.
- The next thing I know a massive tarantula is crawling across the carpet in front of my feet.
- And last week, who was it when real licked my face, the first text I got from her was there's a tarantula in our garage.
- It looks like a tarantula is fucking your mouth.
Examples
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Suddenly, a giant tarantula was on our path.
Academic text (2005) -
There was certainly no plague of tarantulas threatening the area as of yet.
Fiction book (1992) -
Well, yeah, it's a big, fat tarantula.
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Joe, bring me a tarantula.
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Ashley looks back and sees the tarantula coming after them.
Fiction book (2002) -
Suddenly, a male tarantula steps out of the shadows, separating the groups.
Fiction book (2002) -
Most students ask to bring a dog or cat, but universities have also received applications for tarantulas, ferrets, and pigs.
Academic text (2016) -
Instead she displays tarantulas, beetles, and large stick insects.
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Those aren't crabs, those are tarantulas.
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The large, hairy tarantula surprised us when it appeared in the garden.
Synonyms
335
1.0
A small animal with eight legs that makes webs and often has a poisonous bite
11
6.8
An animal with eight legs like a spider or scorpion
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tarantula comes from the Italian town Taranto, where people long ago blamed a local spider for strange, wild dancing called 'tarantism'. That old story is a helpful memory: a tarantula is a large, often hairy spider.