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mygales

mygales is the plural of mygale.

Meaning of mygale

Noun

mygale (plural mygales)

  1. (obsolete) A shrew or ferret.
    • These also shal be reputed among polluted things, of al that moue vpon the earth, the weesel and the mouse and the crocadile, euerie one according to their kinde, the migale and the camelean […] .1635, Holy Bible (Douay), Leviticus II.29–30
  2. Any of the former genus Mygale of large, hairy trapdoor spiders with four lungs and four spinnerets, now distributed in Mygalomorphae.
    • The Mygales are the most interesting creatures, and are called Mason spiders because they build their own houses in a very remarkable manner.1865, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, editor, Once A Week, volume XII

Questions about mygales

What is mygales the plural of?
Mygales is the plural of mygale.

Words near mygales in the dictionary

  1. Myerson's sign
  2. Myersons
  3. myf
  4. Myfanwy
  5. mygale
  6. mygales
  7. mygalid
  8. mygalids
  9. mygalomorph
  10. mygalomorphic
  11. mygalomorphs

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