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triantelope Australia.|traɪˈæntɪləʊp| Also triantulope. Popular corruption of tarantula, applied to a large spider of the genus Voconia.
1846C. P. Hodgson Remin. Australia 173 The tarantulas, or ‘triantelopes’ as the men call them, are large, ugly spiders. 1909Daily Chron. 13 Apr. 4/7 What is a ‘triantelope’?.. Originally it was the children's..way of saying tarantula, but people generally came to adopt it. |