Cimex
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cimex is a noun meaning Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.
Meaning
Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.
Example Sentences
Some of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs.
There was a poor fellow during my remainder there that, for a new trick he had invented of killing cimices and scorpions, had his mountebank banner hung up.
Word Forms
- cimices
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bedbug, cimicid, chinch, cimicomorphan, bed-bug, cimbicid.
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