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black widow

DEFINITIONS OF: black widow

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n venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen

Synonyms:
Latrodectus mactans
Type of:
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
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