单词 | earth-spider |
释义 | > as lemmasearth-spider ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Lycosidae > lycosa tarantula tarantula1561 earth-spider1679 Naples spider1840 vampire1843 Tarentine spider- 1679 W. Winstanley Country-man's Guide xxviii. 36 In case the horse..hath swallowed down any venemous beast, as a..Earth Spider, Snale, or Dirt-Grubber, (Buprestis) then you must make him run, until he sweats. 1726 L. Alberti's Archit. I. 6 A small Earth Spider, commonly call'd a Tarantula. 1803 Philos. Mag. 15 67 Mention is made also of a tarantula, which, according to every probability, is nothing else than the aranea clavipes, or a large American kind of earth spider. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Dec. 760/2 Though the exact circumstances under which this epidemic arose [in 15th cent. Italy] are involved in mystery, yet we may probably safely assume that they were in some way or other connected with a common earth-spider, the tarantula. < as lemmas |
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