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assassin bug
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assassin bug
n.
Any of various predatory bugs of the family Reduviidae, which have short, curved, powerful beaks used to prey on other insects or, in certain genera, modified to suck blood from mammals. Also called reduviid.
assassin bug
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
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Noun1.assassin bugassassin bug - a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
reduviid
heteropterous insect - true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips
family Reduviidae, Reduviidae - assassin bugs
big bedbug, cone-nosed bug, conenose, conenose bug, kissing bug - large bloodsucking bug
Arilus cristatus, wheel bug - large predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects


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