LATRODECTUS MACTANS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

black widow; Latrodectus mactans

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Latrodectus mactans" 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 ("Latrodectus mactans" is a member of...):

genus Latrodectus; Latrodectus (venomous spiders)

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