ツチグモ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ツチグモ – see the following entry.
土蜘蛛つちぐも
[noun] (historical) a renegade clan
[noun] tsuchigumo, a member of a race of spider-like yokai
[noun] (dialectal) synonym of 地蜘蛛 (jigumo, Atypus karschi, a species of purse web spider)
(This term, ツチグモ (tsuchigumo), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)