bird spider

British

noun

any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae , of tropical America

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The biggest of the 932 named tarantula species, the Goliath bird spider of South America, is almost a foot across—an undeniably impressive specimen that can eat small vertebrates.

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"Oh, oh!" spurted the incredulous Saucepan, "that is a worse fib than the account of the bird spider."

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