Definitions for kissing bug

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

kiss′ing bug`(n.)

  1. conenose.

    Category: Entomology

Origin of kissing bug:

1895–1900, Amer.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. conenose, cone-nosed bug, conenose bug, big bedbug, kissing bug(noun)

    large bloodsucking bug

Wiktionary

  1. kissing bug(Noun)

    a bug from the family Hemiptera, that causes sores to the human body


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