ALL meanings of tarantula
ta·ran·tu·la
T t - noun tarantula large spider 1
- noun plural tarantula 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. 1
- noun plural tarantula any of various related spiders. 1
- noun plural tarantula a large wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, of southern Europe, having a bite once thought to be the cause of tarantism. 1
- countable noun tarantula A tarantula is a large hairy spider which has a poisonous bite. 0
- noun tarantula any of various large hairy mostly tropical spiders of the American family Theraphosidae 0
- noun tarantula a large hairy spider, Lycosa tarentula of S Europe, the bite of which was formerly thought to cause tarantism 0
- noun tarantula a wolf spider (Lycosa tarentula) of S Europe, whose bite was popularly but wrongly supposed to cause tarantism 0
- noun tarantula any of numerous large, hairy spiders with a poisonous bite that usually has little effect on warmblooded animals; specif., any of a family (Theraphosidae) found in the SW U.S. and tropical America 0