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tri·at·o·ma

n 1  cap  :  a genus of large blood-sucking bugs that are usu. placed in the family Reduviidae but sometimes assigned to a separate family and that feed on mammals and sometimes transmit Chagas' disease to their hosts - see CONENOSE   2  :  any bug of the genus Triatoma .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  ter·a·to·ma  tri·ti·um 

 
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