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Wheel Bug

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Noun

1. arilus cristatus, wheel bug

large predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wheel Bug

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noun
a large predatory North American heteropterous insect, Arilus cristatus, having a semicircular thoracic projection: family Reduviidae (assassin bugs)

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Wheel Bug

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a large North American assassin bug (Arilus cristatus) distinguished by a high, saw-toothed crest on the prothorax: it sucks the blood of other insects

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

Wheel Bug

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n.
A large assassin bug (Arilus cristatus) of North America that has a notched, wheellike projection on the back of the thorax and preys on other insects.

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