English Explanatory Dictionary

ambush bug

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any insect in the subfamily Phymatinae of the family Reduviidae.

Word forms

ambush bug ambush bugs

Etymology

After their habit of lying in wait, camouflaged, for their prey.

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