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Webster 1913 Edition

Reduvid

Red′u-vid

(r?d′?-v?d)

,

Noun.

[L.

reduvia

a hangnail.]

(Zool.)

Any hemipterous insect of the genus

Redivius

, or family

Reduvidae

. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.