lycose
French, noun/li.koz/
lycose is a French feminine noun meaning “wolf spider” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Araignée commune, qui ne tisse pas de toile, mais chasse ses proies à l’affût”.
What does lycose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewolf spider
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Araignée commune, qui ne tisse pas de toile, mais chasse ses proies à l’affût.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lycose
- lycoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lycose?
- /li.koz/
- \li.koz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lycose in French?
lycose appears about once in every 98 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).