Usually means: Large, hairy spider; many species.
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  1. tarantula: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tarantula: Merriam-Webster
  3. tarantula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tarantula: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tarantula: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tarantula: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tarantula, tarantula: Wordnik
  8. tarantula: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tarantula: Wiktionary
  10. tarantula: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tarantula: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tarantula: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. tarantula: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Tarantula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tarantula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tarantula: Rhymezone
  19. Tarantula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tarantula: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tarantula: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tarantula: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. tarantula: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  25. Tarantula: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. tarantula: Encyclopedia

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  1. tarantula: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. tarantula: Medical dictionary

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  2. tarantula: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. tarantula: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

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  1. The Tarantula, tarantula: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tarantulae as well.)

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noun:  Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family Theraphosidae.
noun:  (by extension) A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder Mygalomorphae to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
noun:  (dated) A species of wolf spider, Lycosa tarantula, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).

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