spider vs black widow

black widow vs spider

spider and black widow both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spider	Yes	No	No	No
black widow	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, black widow is a hyponym of spider; that is, black widow is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than spider:

spider: predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
black widow: venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen

Other hyponyms of spider include orb-weaving spider, Argiope aurantia, black and gold garden spider, Araneus cavaticus, barn spider, Aranea diademata, garden spider, comb-footed spider, theridiid, Latrodectus mactans, tarantula, hunting spider, wolf spider, trap-door spider.

spider (noun)	black widow (noun)
predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey	venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen
a skillet made of cast iron
a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

Difference between spider and black widow

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