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Triatoma

noun

conenoses

• Syn: ↑genus Triatoma

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Reduviidae, ↑family Reduviidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑conenose, ↑cone-nosed bug, ↑conenose bug, ↑big bedbug, ↑kissing bug

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\\trīˈad.əmə\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin tria three + New Latin -toma — more at tri-

1. capitalized : a genus of large blood-sucking bugs that are usually placed in the family Reduviidae but sometimes assigned to a separate family and that feed on mammals and sometimes transmit Chagas' disease to their hosts — see conenose

2. -s : any bug of the genus Triatoma

Useful english dictionary. 2012.