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an asterid dicot genus of the family Compositae including dandelions
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| tarantism |
a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider
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European wolf spider: large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) large hairy tropical spider that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites
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Tarantism is, allegedly, a deadly poisoning resulting from a wolf spider bite (Lycosa tarantula, also known as the "tarantula"). The condition was common in southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There were strong suggestions that there is no organic cause for the heightened excitability and restlessness that gripped the victims. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. ...
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Subfamily Acanthopelminae AcanthopelmaSubfamily Aviculariinae Avicularia Ephobopus Pachistopelma Psalmopoeus TapinaucheniusSubfamily Eumenophorinae Anoploscelus Batesiella Citharischius Encyocrates Eumenophorus Hysterocrates Loxomphalia Loxoptygus   ...
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