spider vs tarantula

tarantula vs spider

spider and tarantula both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spider	Yes	No	No	No
tarantula	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tarantula is a hyponym of spider; that is, tarantula is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spider:

spider: predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
tarantula: large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites

Other hyponyms of spider include orb-weaving spider, Argiope aurantia, black and gold garden spider, Araneus cavaticus, barn spider, Aranea diademata, garden spider, comb-footed spider, theridiid, black widow, Latrodectus mactans, hunting spider, wolf spider, trap-door spider.

spider (noun)	tarantula (noun)
predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey	large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites
a skillet made of cast iron	large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)
a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

Difference between spider and tarantula

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