| 单词 | kissing bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskissing bug kissing bug n. U.S. a blood-sucking bug of the family Reduviidæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Reduviidae reduviid1888 assassin bug1890 kissing bug1899 1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 33 Several persons suffering from swollen faces visited the Emergency Hospital in Washington and complained that they had been bitten by some insect while asleep... Thus began the ‘kissing bug’ scare. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Aug. 1 The doctors were unable to decide whether he had been bitten by a mosquito or a kissing bug. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v. The name kissing-bug originated in the newspapers in June, 1899, many persons being bitten that summer and often on the lip. 1932 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Fund. Insect Life viii. 222 Family Reduviidæ. The Assassin or Kissing Bugs.—This is a very large family of mostly flattened, oval bugs... The assassin bugs catch small insects and suck their blood as food. Some species, when handled, inflict painful bites on man. 1973 L. E. Chadwick tr. W. Linsenmaier Insects of World 120/1 The bite of many reduviids is very painful, even to man; in warm countries certain species even enter homes on occasion at night and suck the blood of people. In North America this may be done by the black ‘kissing bug’ (Melanolestes picipes). About 0·6 inch long, this bug prefers to bite the face, especially in the region of the mouth. 1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiii. 232 The cone-nose bug, or kissing bug, bites the lips of sleeping people, sucking blood and injecting an excruciating toxin. < as lemmas |
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