red-backed spider
noun
A venomous Australian spider, Latrodectus hasselti (family Theridiidae), which is black with an orange-red stripe on the abdomen and is closely related to the American black widow; also called red-back, jockey spider.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Lancet.
- phenomenous
- phenomic
- phenon
- phenosafranin
- phenosafranine
- phenothiazine
- phenotype
- phenotypic
- phenotypical
- phenotypically
- phenotypic selection
- phenotyping
- phenoxazine
- phenoxide
- phenoxy
- phenoxyacetic
- phenoxymethylpenicillin
- phentermine
- phentolamine
- phenyl
- phenylacetamide
- phenylacetate
- phenylacetic
- phenylacetylene
- phenylalanine