Definition of black widow Black widow
black wid•ow
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What does black widow mean?
WordNet
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| black widow - venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen | ||
| Latrodectus mactans | ||
| 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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Wiktionary 
- black widow (Noun)
Any of several species of venomous spider, particularly Latrodectus sp. . The bite is painful to humans, rarely fatal to healthy individuals, but can be life-threatening or fatal to infants or young toddlers. Females are marked by a red hourglass shape on the abdomen see photo, this page, and photos in Wikipedia. Mature males are smaller, of the same black color or a dark brown, have an elongated and slender abdomen rather than the rotund abdomen of the mature female, and are marked on the dorsal of the abdomen with small flattened diamond shapes of the same scarlet color as the female's marks on the ventral of her abdomen. - black widow (Noun)
A woman who kills one or more of her lovers. - black widow (Noun)
A female martyr a suicide bomber or shaheed, whose husband was killed.
