bärˈbā(ˌ)rü, -rō noun
( -s )
Etymology: Portuguese, literally, barber, from barba beard, from Latin; from its bloodsucking apparatus — more at beard
: a large black red-spotted cone-nose bug ( Triatoma, or Conorhinus, megistus ) of the American tropics that transmits the trypanosome causing Chagas' disease