Other spiders belonging to the same family as the New World tarantulas are the monkey spiders of Africa and the bird-eating spiders of Australia and New Guinea. Trap-door spiders and the dangerous funnel-web spider of Australia are also related to the theraphosids as members of Orthognatha.
5. origin-the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; the rumor had its origin in idle gossip; vegetable origins; mineral origin; origin in sensation. source - (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; a heat source; a source of carbon dioxide.
Noun Feminine. Definition. beginning, origin the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause the extremity of a thing of the corners of a sail the first place, principality, rule, magistracy of angels and demons.1  beginning, origin. the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader. 2  that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause.