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tarantula hawks

tarantula hawks is the plural of tarantula hawk.

Meaning of tarantula hawk

Noun

tarantula hawk (plural tarantula hawks)

  1. A kind of spider wasp (of the family Pompilidae), with a painful sting, that deposits an egg on its prey, which include tarantulas, the larvae feeding from the living prey.
    Synonyms:
    tarantula wasp

Questions about tarantula hawks

What is tarantula hawks the plural of?
Tarantula hawks is the plural of tarantula hawk.

Words near tarantula hawks in the dictionary

  1. tarantism
  2. tarantisms
  3. Taranto
  4. tarantula
  5. tarantula hawk
  6. tarantula hawks
  7. tarantula juice
  8. tarantula killer
  9. tarantula killers
  10. tarantula wasp
  11. tarantula wasps

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