Definitions for tarantula

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tarantula ta·ran·tu·la

Spelling: [tuh-ran-chuh-luh]

IPA: /təˈræn tʃə lə/

Tarantula is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in tarantula (aaalnrttu).

Definitions for tarantula

noun

1. any of several large, hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae, as Aphonopelma chalcodes, of the southwestern U.S., having a painful but not highly venomous bite.
2. any of various related spiders.
3. a large wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, of southern Europe, having a bite once thought to be the cause of tarantism.

Origin of tarantula

1555-65; Medieval Latin Italian tarantola. See Taranto, -ule

Examples for tarantula

Good Indian shook off the touch as if it were a tarantula upon him.

It didn't take me long to find that my mine was the 'tarantula.'

There were many scorpions and centipedes, with once in a while a tarantula.

Mizgir, a venomous spider, like the tarantula, found in the Kirghiz Steppes.

Two hours later they were again on the tarantula making for Hobart.

The young man leaped to his feet as if a tarantula had bitten him.

I write to tell you of my success with the tarantula in Young People No. 29.

Ha, that is the tarantula dance; Maestro Paolo foots it bravely!

This is what Dick Adams dreamed that a tarantula said to him.

It is supposed to cure the bite of the tarantula, hence the furious tempo.