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Noun: kissing bug
  1. Large bloodsucking bug, also known as kissing bug
    "The kissing bug got its name from its tendency to bite humans around the mouth while they sleep";
    - conenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug

Derived forms: kissing bugs

Type of: assassin bug, reduviid

Part of: genus Triatoma, Triatoma

Encyclopedia: Kissing bug