kissing bug

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kissing bug - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kissing bug \Kiss"ing bug`\ (Zool.)
     Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous
     Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the
     human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose
     (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [U. S.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

kissing bug - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  kissing bug
      n 1: large bloodsucking bug [syn: conenose, cone-nosed bug,
           conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug]