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redback
noun 3
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4ADJ.
lethal
VERB + REDBACK
encountered, find
REDBACK + NOUN
squash
ADV.
firmly
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noun
1
A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.
1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.
2
A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.
noun
1
the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)
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1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
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Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.
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2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58, Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as th
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