Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various blood-sucking assassin bugs of the subfamily Triatominae, chiefly of the Americas, many of which transmit Chagas' disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hemipterous insect of the genus Conorhinus (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large bloodsucking hemipterous insect of the family
Reduviidæ , often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species calledkissing bugs . It is also calledbig bedbug .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large bloodsucking bug
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Examples
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To-day, both the Melanolestes and the "conenose" are abroad in the land.
The Poison Bugaboo 1910
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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Ustlach - watch out for conenose bugs, also called kissing bugs.
biting insects 2009
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