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Bedbug
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Bedbug has 1 sense
- bedbug(n = noun.animal) bed bug, chinch, cimex lectularius - bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood; Array is a kind of bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect
is a member of cimex, genus cimex
CIDE DICTIONARY
Bedbug, n.
A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius ), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Bedbug, n. either of two flat, wingless, evil-smelling insects of the genus Cimex infesting beds and unclean houses and sucking blood .
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