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‖ mygale|ˈmɪgəliː|
Also 4 migale, mygal.
[late L., a. Gr. µῡγαλῆ.]
1. The shrew-mouse.
1382Wyclif Lev. xi. 30 A mygal [Vulg. mygale], that is a beeste born trecherows to bigile, and moost gloterous. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxiv. (Bodl. MS.), The firette hatte Migale and is a litel beste as it were a wesel. 1828J. G. Wilkinson Mat. Hierogl. [13] The sacred animal of Buto is said to have been the mygale or shrew-mouse.
2. Zool. A genus of large hairy spiders of America; a spider of this genus, e.g. the bird-spider (M. avicularia). [Named by Latreille 1802.]
1834Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. III. 287 This Mygale—Aranea avicularia..—is about an inch and a half long. 1843Owen Lect. Anat. Invertebrate Anim. I. 255 In the Mygale a third ganglion of very small size is formed. 1890Daily News 20 Sept. 5/4 The huge Brazilian mygale.
Hence ˈmygaloid a., belonging to the genus Mygale or family Mygalidæ.
1893Minchin in Nat. Sci. III. 123 A large mygaloid spider. |