Akademik

Reduviidae

noun

assassin bugs

• Syn: ↑family Reduviidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Heteroptera, ↑suborder Heteroptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑assassin bug, ↑reduviid, ↑Triatoma, ↑genus Triatoma, ↑Arilus, ↑genus Arilus

* * *

\\ˌrejəˈvīəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Reduvius, type genus + -idae

: a very large and widely distributed family of bloodsucking hemipterous insects comprising the assassin bugs and having a short 3-jointed proboscis that is curved back under the head when at rest and 3-jointed tarsi — see triatoma

Useful english dictionary. 2012.