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REDBUG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redbug mean?
• REDBUG (noun)
The noun REDBUG has 1 sense:
1. larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Familiarity information: REDBUG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
chigger; harvest mite; jigger; redbug
Hypernyms ("redbug" is a kind of...):
trombiculid (mite that as nymph and adult feeds on early stages of small arthropods but whose larvae are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates)
Holonyms ("redbug" is a member of...):
genus Trombicula; Trombicula (type genus of the family Trombiculidae)
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