Tarantula
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tarantula.
Proper noun
Tarantula f
- (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
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