funnel web
noun1
Australia A funnel-web spider, especially Atrax robustus.
- 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.1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 254:
- 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.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 163:
2
A funnel-shaped web woven by a funnel-web spider or funnel-web tarantula.