lycosa tarentula

English Thesaurus

1. large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hunting spider, wolf spider,
definition	:	ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus lycosa, lycosa,
definition	:	type genus of the family Lycosidae (noun.animal)