big bedbug
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Noun (1)
- large bloodsucking bugSynonyms: conenosecone-nosed bugconenose bugkissing bugType of assassin bug, reduviidMember of Triatoma, genus Triatoma
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“big bedbug” is listed under cone-nose.
cone′nose, cone′-nose′ noun
A large bloodsucking hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug. Syn. — cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug. [ + ]
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54