Latrodectus

noun

venomous spiders

• Syn: ↑genus Latrodectus

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Theridiidae, ↑family Theridiidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑black widow, ↑Latrodectus mactans

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\\-ktəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin

: a genus of nearly cosmopolitan arachnomorph spiders (family Theridiidae) that include all the well-known venomous spiders, that are of medium size and dark or black in color and often marked with red, and that have a large globular usually glossy abdomen and long and wiry legs