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FAMILY REDUVIIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Reduviidae mean?
• FAMILY REDUVIIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY REDUVIIDAE has 1 sense:
1. assassin bugs
Familiarity information: FAMILY REDUVIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assassin bugs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Reduviidae; Reduviidae
Hypernyms ("family Reduviidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Reduviidae"):
assassin bug; reduviid (a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals)
genus Triatoma; Triatoma (conenoses)
Arilus; genus Arilus (a genus of Reduviidae)
Holonyms ("family Reduviidae" is a member of...):
Heteroptera; suborder Heteroptera (true bugs)
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