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REDUVIID

Dictionary entry overview: What does reduviid mean?

• REDUVIID (noun)
The noun REDUVIID has 1 sense:

1. a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals

Familiarity information: REDUVIID used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• REDUVIID (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

assassin bug; reduviid

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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