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tarantula
  1. A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula.
  2. A "true tarantula", consisting of large, hairy spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.
  3. A member of several other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or close relation to family Theraphosidae.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We did see several tarantula hawks buzzing past our heads and running around on the ground.”
      “The tarantula hawk bends its long abdomen forward and underneath the tarantula to deliver a paralytic venom with its mighty stinger.”
      “Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula.”
tarantism
  1. an extreme urge to dance
  2. Examples:
    1. “In many families naming tarantism was taboo, reflecting this ambiguity between condemnation and belief.”
      “The tarantism so common in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is another example of epidemic hysteria.”
      “It is affecting people in much the same way as tarantism, or the dancing sickness, affected the Italians in the middle ages.”
tarantulas
  1. plural of tarantula
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money.”
      “Despite the complications, the surgeries typically go smoothly and most tarantulas emerge unscathed.”
      “An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.”
tarantisms
  1. plural of tarantism
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