Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black_widow

1 sense of black widow

Sense 1
black widow, Latrodectus mactans -- (venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen)
       => 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)