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    REDUVIID

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    assassin bug; reduviid

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("reduviid" is a kind of...):

    heteropterous insect (true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reduviid"):

    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)

    Holonyms ("reduviid" is a member of...):

    family Reduviidae; Reduviidae (assassin bugs)

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