单词 | reduviid |
释义 | reduviidn.adj. Entomology. A. n. An insect of the family Reduviidae (order Hemiptera: Heteroptera), which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of Chagas' disease; an assassin bug, a kissing bug. 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 1888 J. S. Kingsley Riverside Nat. Hist. II. 267 These are strongly suggestive of certain tropical forms of Reduviids. 1926 Jrnl. Parasitol. 12 214 The Reduviid was kept without food for five days and daily examination of its feces was made, but no flagellates of any description were found. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 202 Some [bugs] are parasitic on man and the higher animals, for instance..some of the reduviids. 1991 Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) I. xxx. 494/2 Reduviids are diverse in appearance and generally large in size. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of this family. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > relating to or characteristic of Hemiptera > of Heteroptera > belonging to family Reduviidae reduviid1896 1896 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1893–4 14 128 Like others of the reduviid family, [it] is noted for its bloodthirsty habits. 1900 Ibis Apr. 245 The stomachs contain diptera, reduviid bugs, and occasionally cheniform spiders and wasps. 1989 Amer. Zoologist 29 436/2 Trypanosoma cruzi..is transmitted to mammalian hosts in the feces from infected reduviid vectors as these insects take a blood meal. 2003 W. Allen Green Phoenix ii. 18 When the remaining eggs hatched, more predators attacked the emerging caterpillars: ants, birds, wasps, reduviid bugs, spiders, and beetles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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