Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A winged bug or heteropterous insect, Reduvius personatus, of the family Reduviidæ, which preys upon the bedbug.
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The two words are transposed, and _bee_ annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a connection than fly-bug or beetle.
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