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funnel webs

funnel webs is the plural of funnel web.

Meaning of funnel web

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
  2. A funnel-shaped web woven by a funnel-web spider or funnel-web tarantula.

Questions about funnel webs

What is funnel webs the plural of?
Funnel webs is the plural of funnel web.

Words near funnel webs in the dictionary

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

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