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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An insect of the genus Cimex, which includes the bedbugs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Pl. cimices (sim′ i-sēz). A bug, as a bedbug.
  2. n. [capitalized] A genus of heteropterous hemipterous insects, typical of the family Cimicidæ. Cimex lectularius is the bedbug. See bug, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See bedbug.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs

Etymologies

  1. From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex ("bug"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin cīmex, bedbug. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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