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Reduviid

//ɹɪˈdjuː.vi.ɪd// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    of, relating to, or characteristic of the family Reduviidae not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    any member of the Reduviidae family of insects, which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of Chagas disease
  2. 2
    a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.

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