Tarentula

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See also: tarantula and Tarantula

Translingual

Etymology

A variant of Latin tarantula, taking into account the etymological root of Latin Tarentum (whence Italian Taranto). Thus, Latin Tarentum (“town”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

Proper noun

Tarentula f

(obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Lycosidae – a disused grouping of spiders, sometimes a subgenus of Lycosa, now in other genera of Lycosidae.

Hyponyms

(genus): Tarentula apuliae, Tarentula rubiginosa, Tarentula melanogaster, Tarentula fasciiventris, Tarentula narbonensis - selected species

See also

Tarantula

References

William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “Tarentula”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Tarentula at Index to Organism Names

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