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funnel web

funnel web noun: a funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.

Noun

funnel web (plural funnel webs)

  1. (Australia) A funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.
    • 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
    • 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
  2. A funnel-shaped web woven by a funnel-web spider or funnel-web tarantula.

Forms of funnel web

pluralfunnel webs
alternative formfunnel-web
alternative formfunnelweb

Questions about funnel web

What does funnel web mean?
Funnel web means a funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.
What part of speech is funnel web?
Funnel web is a noun.
What is the plural of funnel web?
The plural of funnel web is funnel webs.

Words near funnel web in the dictionary

  1. funnel stays
  2. funnel trap
  3. funnel traps
  4. funnel weaver
  5. funnel weavers
  6. funnel web
  7. funnel webs
  8. funnel-shaped
  9. funnel-web
  10. funnel-web spider
  11. funnel-web spiders

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