Meanings
nounredbug (plural redbugs)
plural redbugs
- Any member of the family Pyrrhocoridae of true bugs.
Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg. "Gentle breeding," he continued, when I had found and scratched it,....
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
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nounlarval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
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redbug. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redbug
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