triatoma
noun
tri·at·o·ma
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Medical Definition of triatoma
1
capitalized
: a genus of large blood-sucking bugs that are usually 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