vinchuca

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a blood-feeding South American triatomine bug, especially Triatoma infestans, that may transmit the parasite causing Chagas disease

   The vinchuca emerged from a crack in the wall during the night.

Borrowed from Spanish vinchuca, from a Quechua name for the insect. English natural-history and medical writing adopted the regional South American term for blood-feeding bugs of the genus Triatoma, especially the important Chagas-disease vector T. infestans.

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