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- venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen
How To Use black widow In A Sentence
- A black widow spider has a distinctive red hourglass marking on its stomach.
- The black widow spider has red-orange markings on its body.
- The next morning, the victim developed "chest pain and other symptoms", leading doctors to conclude he'd been bitten by a dune-dwelling katipo spider - a rare but nasty piece of work related to Australian redbacks and North American black widow spiders. The Register
- Scientists are now making use of the black widow spider's venom to help them understand disabling human diseases.
- A black widow spider has a distinctive red hourglass marking on its stomach.
- They also added super jumpoff Black Widow (who served as team leader), Hercules and Ghost Rider to their ranks (as well as a few other low level heroes) and fought supervillians based out of Los Angeles. Even More Slept On Comic Book Titles AKA Yet Another Poisonous Paragraphs Special Comic Book Nerd Edition
- And the little old women with bandanas on their heads, who cooked for the soldiers, they outdid themselves: black widow spider meat stewed in horse piss and garlic; beestings on a biscuit, dipped in donkey dung and stuffed in red peppers. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
- Black widow venom affects the muscles, and may cause severe cramping in the abdomen and other parts of the body.
- The black widow spider and its relatives produce neurotoxins.
- This spider is about the size of a Black Widow in body length, has a leg span of 20-30 millimeters (1 inch) and has a violin-shaped marking on its back. Spider Bites
