Atrax

Etymology
Coined by and published in 1877

Possibly from (feminine nominative) meaning dull black, dark., but more likely from - although there is no obvious connection between Australian spiders and ancient Greece. A third possibility could involve a misspelling of, having the meaning ‘terrible, frightening, dreadful’ (more appropriate in the light of the potency of the venom).

Hypernyms

 * - order; - suborder;  - infraorder;  - superfamily;  - family;  - subfamily; Atrax - genus

Hyponyms

 * ,, - species

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A town of Thessaly, situated above the river Peneus