{ "Mygale":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": shrewmouse":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8mig\u0259l\u0113", "\"" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Latin, from Greek mygal\u0113":"Noun", "New Latin, from Latin, shrewmouse":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180932" }, "mygalomorph":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of various widely distributed, typically large, ground-dwelling, nocturnal spiders (infraorder or suborder Mygalomorphae) that construct silk-lined burrows or chambers, feed on small animals (such as insects, frogs, or mice), and include the tarantulas and trapdoor spiders":[ "The mygalomorphs comprise some 2,200 species of mostly large burrowers.", "\u2014 Norman Patnick", "\u2026 I wonder what the warmly biophilic E. O. Wilson would do if he found a hairy mygalomorph in his shoe closet.", "\u2014 Chet Raymo", "\u2014 often used before another noun mygalomorph spiders mygalomorph behavior" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8mi-g\u0259-l\u014d-\u02ccm\u022frf" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "from the stem of New Latin Mygalomorphae, suborder name (originally a family name), from Mygale, a spider genus (borrowed from Greek m\u0233gal\u00ea, m\u0233gal\u00e9\u0113 \"an animal, perhaps the shrew or field mouse,\" from m\u0233-, stem of m\u0177s \"mouse\" + gal\u00e9\u0113 \"weasel, marten\") + -o- -o- + -morphae, feminine plural of -morphus -morphous \u2014 more at mouse entry 1 , galea":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1938, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193311" }, "Mygalomorphae":{ "type":[ "plural noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a suborder of spiders comprising those in which the fangs move vertically and four book lungs are present \u2014 see tarantula":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from mygale + -morphae":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203849" }, "mygale":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": shrewmouse":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8mig\u0259l\u0113", "\"" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Latin, from Greek mygal\u0113":"Noun", "New Latin, from Latin, shrewmouse":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-023434" } }