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Noun: assassin bug  u'sa-sin búg
  1. A true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
    "The assassin bug stalked its insect prey in the garden";
    - reduviid

Derived forms: assassin bugs

Type of: heteropterous insect

Part of: family Reduviidae, Reduviidae

Encyclopedia: Assassin bug