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assassin bug

noun

  1. any of numerous bugs of the family Reduviidae, feeding chiefly on other insects but including some forms that are bloodsucking parasites of mammals.

assassin bug

noun

  1. any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of assassin bug1

First recorded in 1890–95
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