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KISSING BUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kissing bug mean? 

KISSING BUG (noun)
  The noun KISSING BUG has 1 sense:

1. large bloodsucking bugplay

  Familiarity information: KISSING BUG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KISSING BUG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large bloodsucking bug

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

big bedbug; cone-nosed bug; conenose; conenose bug; kissing bug

Hypernyms ("kissing bug" is a kind of...):

assassin bug; reduviid (a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals)

Holonyms ("kissing bug" is a member of...):

genus Triatoma; Triatoma (conenoses)


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