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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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