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assassin bug in American English
any of a family (Reduviidae) of large brownish hemipteran insects that kill other insects and suck the life fluids from them: some species suck blood from mammals and may transmit Chagas' disease to humans
noun: any of numerous bugs of the family Reduviidae, feeding chiefly on other insects but including some forms that are bloodsucking parasites of mammals

assassin bug in British English
noun: any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae

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