baboon spider

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baboon spider (plural baboon spiders)

  1. Any of the tarantula subfamily Harpactirinae.
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 386:
      There was a spider in our hut one night […]. One of those horrible hairy baboon-spiders.