Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An insect of the genus Cimex, which includes the bedbugs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pl. cimices (sim′ i-sēz). A bug, as a bedbug.
- n. [capitalized] A genus of heteropterous hemipterous insects, typical of the family Cimicidæ. Cimex lectularius is the bedbug. See bug, 2.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See bedbug.
WordNet 3.0
- n. type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs
Etymologies
- From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex ("bug"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin cīmex, bedbug. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Although New York has been a focus of bed bug mania, the pests, formally known as cimex lectularius, have also been spotted in a Denver public library, a Bridgeport, Conn., firehouse and a dentist's office in Nashville, Tenn., among many other public places.”
“Although New York has been a focus of bed bug mania, the pests, formally known as cimex lectularius, have also been spotted in a Denver public library, a Bridgeport, Conn., firehouse and a dentist's office in Nashville, Tenn., among thousands of other offices and public places that largely go unreported.”
“Although New York has been a focus of bed bug mania, the pests, formally known as cimex lectularius, have also been spotted in a Denver public library, a Bridgeport,”
“By cimex, March 5, 2010 @ 8:49 am cialis czjgdb doxycycline mxdk accutane rmkvau propecia 847”
“And, if the establishment be simple, it is also neat and clean: we never suffered from the cimex and pulex of which”
“Among the insects which they brought back with them was a very fine species of cimex; it was found in great numbers upon the foliage of Hibiscus tiliaceus.”
“A squadron of mosquitoes -- a sort of _escadrille de chasse_, as it were -- kept me awake until daybreak, when they were relieved by a skirmishing party of _cimex lectulariae_, which are well known in”
“From runnin 'off with Cunnle Wright, -- 't wuz jest a common _cimex lectularius_.”
“From runnin off with Cunnle Wright, -- 'twuz jest a common _cimex lectularius.”
“And, if the establishment be simple, it is also neat and clean: we never suffered from the cimex and pulex of which Captain Tuckey complains so bitterly, and the fourmis voyageuses (drivers), mosquitoes, scorpions, and centipedes were unknown to us.”
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