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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Medieval Latin
Origin: Old Italian tarantola, from Taranto city in southern Italy, where such spiders are found

tarantula

 noun
     
tarantula
Related topics: Insects
ta‧ran‧tu‧la [countable]
HBI a large poisonous spider from Southern Europe and tropical America
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