Definition of tarantula in English:

tarantula

noun təˈrantjʊlətəˈræn(t)ʃələ

1A very large hairy spider found chiefly in tropical and subtropical America, some kinds of which are able to catch small lizards, frogs, and birds.
Family Theraphosidae, suborder Mygalomorphae
Also called bird-eating spider
Example sentencesExamples
- The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic.
- Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world.
- They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money.
- The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches.
- He and colleagues studied several other spider species and so far have found tarantulas to be the only species that use silken secretions from their feet.
- The group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards.
- Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast.
- Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves.
- If your terrarium is going to be home to any live animals, such as lizards, tarantulas, or other wildlife, make sure you include a water source, by embedding a shallow dish into the soil and keeping it filled with fresh water.
- In fact in much of their behaviour Australia's tarantulas act less like spiders and more like mammals, he says.
- An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.
- Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions.
- He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
- Known for its rugged canyons, expansive rolling hills of oak woodlands, and healthy population of tarantulas, the 87,000-acre park offers more than 250 miles of trails.
- Researchers are using two species in Belize, the redrump tarantula and the cinnamon tarantula, implanted with radio transponders to help monitor forest degradation.
- Like chili plants, tarantulas produce agony-inflicting toxins designed to repel would-be predators, researchers say.
- Alternatively, the foot secretions may have evolved independently in tarantulas to help the relatively large spiders move around safely, he adds.
- These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti.
- We saw tarantulas and spiders and bugs crawling all over the place!
- Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula.
2A large black wolf spider of southern Europe, whose bite was formerly believed to cause tarantism.
Lycosa tarentula, family Lycosidae
Example sentencesExamples
- By means of dancing and sweating, those bitten by tarantulas endeavor to expel the infected vapors.
- Tarantism, that is, the disease resulting from having been bitten by a tarantula, was well known in southern Europe, and references to it permeated medical literature, music, and folklore for 500 years or more.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin, from Old Italian tarantola 'tarantula', from the name of the seaport Taranto. Compare with tarantella and tarantism.

The Italian seaport of Taranto gave its name to the tarantula, a large black spider found in southern Europe. Its bite was formerly thought to cause tarantism, a psychological illness marked by an extreme impulse to dance, which affected many people in Italy from the 15th to the 17th century. The rapid whirling tarantella (late 18th century) dance gets its name from the same source, as it was believed to be a cure for tarantism, with people dancing the tarantella until exhausted.

Definition of tarantula in US English:

tarantula

nountəˈræn(t)ʃələtəˈran(t)SHələ

1A large hairy spider found chiefly in tropical and subtropical America, some kinds of which are able to catch small lizards, frogs, and birds.
Family Theraphosidae, suborder Mygalomorphae: numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
- Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world.
- They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money.
- Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula.
- He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
- In fact in much of their behaviour Australia's tarantulas act less like spiders and more like mammals, he says.
- These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti.
- The group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards.
- He and colleagues studied several other spider species and so far have found tarantulas to be the only species that use silken secretions from their feet.
- Researchers are using two species in Belize, the redrump tarantula and the cinnamon tarantula, implanted with radio transponders to help monitor forest degradation.
- Known for its rugged canyons, expansive rolling hills of oak woodlands, and healthy population of tarantulas, the 87,000-acre park offers more than 250 miles of trails.
- Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast.
- If your terrarium is going to be home to any live animals, such as lizards, tarantulas, or other wildlife, make sure you include a water source, by embedding a shallow dish into the soil and keeping it filled with fresh water.
- An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.
- The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic.
- We saw tarantulas and spiders and bugs crawling all over the place!
- Alternatively, the foot secretions may have evolved independently in tarantulas to help the relatively large spiders move around safely, he adds.
- The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches.
- Like chili plants, tarantulas produce agony-inflicting toxins designed to repel would-be predators, researchers say.
- Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves.
- Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions.
2A large black wolf spider of southern Europe, whose bite was formerly believed to cause tarantism.
Lycosa tarentula, family Lycosidae
Example sentencesExamples
- By means of dancing and sweating, those bitten by tarantulas endeavor to expel the infected vapors.
- Tarantism, that is, the disease resulting from having been bitten by a tarantula, was well known in southern Europe, and references to it permeated medical literature, music, and folklore for 500 years or more.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin, from Old Italian tarantola ‘tarantula’, from the name of the seaport Taranto. Compare with tarantella and tarantism.

单词	tarantula
释义	Definition of tarantula in English: tarantula noun təˈrantjʊlətəˈræn(t)ʃələ 1A very large hairy spider found chiefly in tropical and subtropical America, some kinds of which are able to catch small lizards, frogs, and birds. Family Theraphosidae, suborder Mygalomorphae Also called bird-eating spider Example sentencesExamples The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic. Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world. They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money. The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches. He and colleagues studied several other spider species and so far have found tarantulas to be the only species that use silken secretions from their feet. The group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards. Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast. Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves. If your terrarium is going to be home to any live animals, such as lizards, tarantulas, or other wildlife, make sure you include a water source, by embedding a shallow dish into the soil and keeping it filled with fresh water. In fact in much of their behaviour Australia's tarantulas act less like spiders and more like mammals, he says. An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas. Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions. He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula. Known for its rugged canyons, expansive rolling hills of oak woodlands, and healthy population of tarantulas, the 87,000-acre park offers more than 250 miles of trails. Researchers are using two species in Belize, the redrump tarantula and the cinnamon tarantula, implanted with radio transponders to help monitor forest degradation. Like chili plants, tarantulas produce agony-inflicting toxins designed to repel would-be predators, researchers say. Alternatively, the foot secretions may have evolved independently in tarantulas to help the relatively large spiders move around safely, he adds. These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti. We saw tarantulas and spiders and bugs crawling all over the place! Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula. 2A large black wolf spider of southern Europe, whose bite was formerly believed to cause tarantism. Lycosa tarentula, family Lycosidae Example sentencesExamples By means of dancing and sweating, those bitten by tarantulas endeavor to expel the infected vapors. Tarantism, that is, the disease resulting from having been bitten by a tarantula, was well known in southern Europe, and references to it permeated medical literature, music, and folklore for 500 years or more. Origin Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin, from Old Italian tarantola 'tarantula', from the name of the seaport Taranto. Compare with tarantella and tarantism. The Italian seaport of Taranto gave its name to the tarantula, a large black spider found in southern Europe. Its bite was formerly thought to cause tarantism, a psychological illness marked by an extreme impulse to dance, which affected many people in Italy from the 15th to the 17th century. The rapid whirling tarantella (late 18th century) dance gets its name from the same source, as it was believed to be a cure for tarantism, with people dancing the tarantella until exhausted. Definition of tarantula in US English: tarantula nountəˈræn(t)ʃələtəˈran(t)SHələ 1A large hairy spider found chiefly in tropical and subtropical America, some kinds of which are able to catch small lizards, frogs, and birds. Family Theraphosidae, suborder Mygalomorphae: numerous species Example sentencesExamples Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world. They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money. Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula. He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula. In fact in much of their behaviour Australia's tarantulas act less like spiders and more like mammals, he says. These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti. The group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards. He and colleagues studied several other spider species and so far have found tarantulas to be the only species that use silken secretions from their feet. Researchers are using two species in Belize, the redrump tarantula and the cinnamon tarantula, implanted with radio transponders to help monitor forest degradation. Known for its rugged canyons, expansive rolling hills of oak woodlands, and healthy population of tarantulas, the 87,000-acre park offers more than 250 miles of trails. Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast. If your terrarium is going to be home to any live animals, such as lizards, tarantulas, or other wildlife, make sure you include a water source, by embedding a shallow dish into the soil and keeping it filled with fresh water. An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas. The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic. We saw tarantulas and spiders and bugs crawling all over the place! Alternatively, the foot secretions may have evolved independently in tarantulas to help the relatively large spiders move around safely, he adds. The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches. Like chili plants, tarantulas produce agony-inflicting toxins designed to repel would-be predators, researchers say. Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves. Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions. 2A large black wolf spider of southern Europe, whose bite was formerly believed to cause tarantism. Lycosa tarentula, family Lycosidae Example sentencesExamples By means of dancing and sweating, those bitten by tarantulas endeavor to expel the infected vapors. Tarantism, that is, the disease resulting from having been bitten by a tarantula, was well known in southern Europe, and references to it permeated medical literature, music, and folklore for 500 years or more. Origin Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin, from Old Italian tarantola ‘tarantula’, from the name of the seaport Taranto. Compare with tarantella and tarantism.
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