a very large hairy spider found chiefly in tropical and subtropical America, some kinds of which are able to catch small lizards, frogs, and birds 捕鸟蛛。 亦称bird-eating spider
Family Theraphosidae, suborder Mygalomorphae 捕鸟蛛科,猛蜘亚目
a large black wolf spider of southern Europe, whose bite was formerly believed to cause tarantism 塔兰图拉毒蛛
Lycosa tarentula, family Lycosidae 拉丁名Lycosa tarentula,狼蛛科
语源
mid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin, from Old Italian tarantola 'tarantula', from the name of the seaport Taranto. Compare with tarantella and tarantism