Definition of black widow
:a venomous New World spider (Latrodectus mactans of the family Theridiidae) the female of which is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen;
broadly
:any of various related venomous spiders that have a large globular, usually glossy, dark abdomen often marked with red and long and wiry legs
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