funnel web

noun

A funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.

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Meanings

nounfunnel web (plural funnel webs)

plural funnel webs · alternative funnel-web · alternative funnelweb

  1. AustraliaA funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.

    I dived in right to the bottom and there it was, a three foot wide funnel-web with jaws like a tyrannosaurus and it was snapping at me.

    1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 163
    1 more example

    Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.

    1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 254
  2. A funnel-shaped web woven by a funnel-web spider or funnel-web tarantula.

Translations

German Gespinstrohr
  • Gespinstrohrfunnel-shaped web
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