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the only spider where the bride eats the groom and the title still fits
means A woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
from From Old English 'widewe,' tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *widhewo-, meaning 'bereft' or 'separated' — the same ancient sense of being split apart that also gives Latin 'vidua,' Sanskrit 'vidhava,' and the 'divide' family. So at its root the word doesn't describe the marriage that was, but the wrenching apart that ended it. The black widow spider borrowed the name in the 19th century for the female's grim habit of devouring her mate.
- word origin
- From a root meaning to be empty or separated
- black widow
- Female sometimes devours mate after the act
- widow's peak
- V-shaped hairline once linked to early widowhood
- chess term
- A widow is a draw-prone trapped position
- longevity gap
- Wives statistically outlive husbands worldwide
black widow spider — latrodectus genus, female kills male after mating in ~90% of encounters
widow's peak — hairline pattern named after its resemblance to a widow's veil in 16th century england
widow maker — left anterior descending coronary artery blockage, causes sudden fatal heart attacks