† star-spidern.Obsoleterare a venomous spider (not identified) having a black body with contrasting spots or stripes, perhaps one of the genus Latrodectus (black widows). [After classical Latin asterion (Pliny, cited in the source of quot. 1608; < Hellenistic Greek ἀστέριον, use as noun of the neuter of ancient Greek ἀστέριος starry: see asterionn.).]
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1608 E. TopsellHist. Serpents 250 Of the wounding of the Starre-Spyder feeblenes and weakenes followeth.