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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

REDBACK

REDBACK Red "back ` (rd "bk `), n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: The dunlin. [U. S.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

redback

redback |ˈrɛdbak |(also redback spider ) noun a highly venomous Australasian spider which is black with a bright red stripe down the back, closely related to the American black widow. Latrodectus mactans hasseltii, family Theridiidae.

 

Oxford Dictionary

redback

redback |ˈrɛdbak |(also redback spider ) noun a highly venomous Australasian spider which is black with a bright red stripe down the back, closely related to the American black widow. Latrodectus mactans hasseltii, family Theridiidae.