HyperDic: assassin_bug

English > 1 sense of the expression assassin bug:
NOUNanimalassassin bug, reduviida true bug
English > assassin bug: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningA true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals.
Synonymreduviid
Member ofReduviidae, family Reduviidaeassassin bugs
Narrowerconenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing buglarge bloodsucking bug / bug
wheel bug, Arilus cristatuslarge predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects
Broaderheteropterous insecttrue bugs

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