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Assassin Bug

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Noun

1. assassin bug, reduviid

a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Assassin Bug

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noun
any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae

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Assassin Bug

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any of a family (Reduviidae) of large brownish hemipteran insects that kill other insects and suck the life fluids from them: some species suck blood from mammals and may transmit Chagas' disease to humans

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Assassin Bug

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n.
Any of various predatory insects of the family Reduviidae, having a short stout beak used to prey on other insects or, in certain genera, to suck blood from mammals. Also called reduviid.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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