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oxbow (medicine) and theraphosid (iou)


oxbow (medicine)


oxbow


A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.


theraphosid (iou)



theraphosid noun. L19.
[from mod. Latin Theraphosidae (see below), from earlier Theraphosae, irreg. from Greek theraphion small animal, insect, from ther animal: see -ID3.]
Zoology. A member of the family Theraphosidae of large hairy tropical mygalomorph spiders. Cf. TARANTULA 1b.