funnel web

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Noun

funnel web (plural funnel webs)

  1. (Australia) A funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.
    • 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 254:
      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.
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 163:
      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.
  2. A funnel-shaped web woven by a funnel-web spider or funnel-web tarantula.
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