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Any of several species of wandering spiders (family Lycosidae) that catch their prey on the ground by stalking it and not building webs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hunting spider
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spider
Narrower terms: European wolf spider, tarantula, Lycosa tarentula
Partial calque of translingual Lycosa, Lycosidae.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
عَنْكَبُوت ذِئْبِيّ
(ʕankabūt ḏiʔbiyy)
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Armenian:
մորմ
(morm)
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Asturian:
licósido
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Asturian:
gatuña llobu
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Basque:
likosido
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Bulgarian:
тарантула
(tarantula)
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Catalan:
licòsid
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Catalan:
aranya llop
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Chinese Mandarin:
狼蛛
(lángzhū)
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Danish:
jagtedderkop
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Dutch:
wolfsspin
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Esperanto:
luparaneo
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Finnish:
juoksuhämähäkki
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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French:
lycose
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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French:
araignée-loup
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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German:
Wolfspinne
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Hungarian:
farkaspókfélék
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Italian:
ragno-lupo
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Italian:
licosa
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Latin:
arānea lupīna
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Lithuanian:
plėšriavoris
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Navajo:
naʼashjéʼiitsoh
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Norwegian Bokmål:
ulvedderkopp
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
ulvedderkop
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Portuguese:
aranha-lobo
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Romanian:
păianjen-lup
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Russian:
пау́к-волк
(paúk-volk)
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Spanish:
licósido
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Spanish:
araña lobo
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Swedish:
vargspindel
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Swedish:
jaktspindel
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Uyghur:
بۇي
(buy)
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae
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Vietnamese:
nhện sói
— any of several spiders of the family Lycosidae