mygale

See also: Mygale

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mygalē (“field mouse”), from Ancient Greek μυγαλῆ (mugalê).

Noun

mygale (plural mygales)

1. Any of the former genus of large, hairy trapdoor spiders with four lungs and four spinnerets, now distributed in Mygalomorphae.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mygale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• -megaly, gamely, gleamy