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• red-[=u]-v[=i]'i-d[=e], n.pl. a family of predacious bugs.--adj. RED[=U]'VIOID.--n. RED[=U]'VIUS, a genus embracing about fifty species, mostly African--the Fly-bug is European.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson