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8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
originBorrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0