funnel-web spider

noun

Any spider of the families Atracidae and Macrothelidae, which weave funnel-shaped webs (formerly placed in Hexathalidae).

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Meanings

nounfunnel-web spider (plural funnel-web spiders)

plural funnel-web spiders

  1. Any spider of the families Atracidae and Macrothelidae, which weave funnel-shaped webs (formerly placed in Hexathalidae).
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