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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of a division of spiders instituted by Walckenaer, containing large quadripulmonary spiders which lurk in holes, as the mygalids and the trap-door spiders; any latebricole spider (see Latebricolæ).
  • Noting a spider of the group above defined.

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