Other forms: tarantulas
A tarantula is a very large hairy spider. A pet tarantula, the tarantula moved, afraid of tarantulas.
None is dangerous to a person, and the worst most can do is flick irritating hairs off the abdomen. The name comes from Taranto in Italy and from a quite different spider, whose bite was said to be cured by frenzied dancing — which is where the tarantella comes from.
1nountarantulaA very large hairy spider.
“The zookeeper let a tarantula crawl slowly across her hand.”
tarantula is a spider.
From Taranto in southern Italy, by way of a wolf spider whose bite was blamed for a dancing frenzy.
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA