noun
- any of numerous bugs of the family Reduviidae, feeding chiefly on other insects but including some forms that are bloodsucking parasites of mammals.
noun
- any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
n.
- A predatory bug of the family Reduviidae having powerful piercing mouthparts that inflict irritating, painful bites on humans.