BLACK WIDOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black widow mean? 

• BLACK WIDOW (noun)
  The noun BLACK WIDOW has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BLACK WIDOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK WIDOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black widow; Latrodectus mactans

Hypernyms ("black widow" is a kind 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)

Holonyms ("black widow" is a member of...):

genus Latrodectus; Latrodectus (venomous spiders)