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black widow

black wid·ow (plural black wid·ows)


noun 
Definition:
 
poisonous spider: a highly poisonous spider, the female of which has a black body with an hourglass-shaped red marking on the abdomen. Native to: temperate North America and East Asia.  Latin name Latrodectus mactans.

[< the female's habit of eating her mate]
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