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Noun: black widow  blak wi-dow
  1. Venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen
    - Latrodectus mactans

Derived forms: black widows

Type of: spider

Part of: genus Latrodectus, Latrodectus

Encyclopedia: Black widow