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☆ wheel bug

a large North American assassin bug (Arilus cristatus) distinguished by a high, saw-toothed crest on the prothorax: it sucks the blood of other insects

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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