conenose

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Noun

HYPHEN

cone=nose

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun conenose has 1 sense

conenose(n = noun.animal) big bedbug, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, kissing bug - large bloodsucking bug;

is a kind of assassin bug, reduviid

is a member of genus triatoma, triatoma

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CIDE DICTIONARY

conenose, n.

A large bloodsucking hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]