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funnelweb

funnelweb is the alternative spelling 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.

Forms of funnelweb

pluralfunnelwebs

Questions about funnelweb

What is funnelweb the alternative spelling of?
Funnelweb is the alternative spelling of funnel web.

Words near funnelweb in the dictionary

  1. Funnells
  2. funnelplot
  3. funnelplots
  4. funnels
  5. funnelshaped
  6. funnelweb
  7. funnelwebs
  8. funnelwise
  9. funner
  10. funness
  11. funnest

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