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REDUVIID
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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
Sense 1
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)
Context examples
The parasite life cycle involves hematophagous reduviid bugs as vectors.
(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
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