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redbugs

redbugs is the plural of redbug.

Meaning of redbug

Noun

redbug (plural redbugs)

  1. 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

Questions about redbugs

What is redbugs the plural of?
Redbugs is the plural of redbug.

Words near redbugs in the dictionary

  1. redbrown
  2. redbuck
  3. redbud
  4. redbuds
  5. redbug
  6. redbugs
  7. Redburn
  8. Redburns
  9. redbush
  10. redcanyonite
  11. redcap

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