LATRODECTUS


Meaning of LATRODECTUS in English

-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

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