assassin bug

1. 1.

   a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals

   Synonymsreduviid

   Broaderheteropterous insect

   Narrowerconenosewheel bug

   Part ofReduviidae

Questions about assassin bug

What does assassin bug mean?

assassin bug means "a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals".

What is another word for assassin bug?

Close synonyms include reduviid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assassin bug a common word?

assassin bug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.