Spider
Spider noun - Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey.
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Tarantula and spider are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tarantula" instead a noun "Spider".
Nearby Words: spidery, spidering, spidered
Tarantula
Tarantula noun - Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites.
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Galvantula is another "small giant" spider of comparable size to Ariados, but its pre-evolution is the size of a real-life tarantula.
Source: Giant Spider aka: Giant Spiders - Pokémon has three, and they're rather small for a trope about big spiders, but Ariados is still triple the size of a tarantula and even its former form is pretty bigger than any real spider.
Source: Giant Spider aka: Giant Spiders - Tarantula is a spider woman who onstage appears more human than arachnid, but the sand painting suggests her "true" form resembles that of a Drider or the Racnoss Empress.
Source: Theatre / Zarkana
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