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REDUVIIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Assassin bugs

Synonyms:

family Reduviidae; Reduviidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Reduviidae"):

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

genus Triatoma; Triatoma (conenoses)

Arilus; genus Arilus (a genus of Reduviidae)

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

Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)

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