any of several large bloodsucking bugs of the genus Triatoma
conenose in American English
(ˈkoʊnˌnoʊz)
US
noun
any of certain hemipteran insects (family Reduviidae) with a conelike base on the sucking beak, esp. a bloodsucking genus (Triatoma) that sometimes transmits parasites: found in the S U.S. and tropical America