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Cimex   Listen
noun
Cimex  n.  (pl. cimices)  (Zool.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.





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"Cimex" Quotes from Famous Books



... said tha was eddykated peepl to Boston and tha wouldn't stan' it no how. Idnow as tha WOOOD and idnow as tha wood.—H. B.] The rigiment come up one day in time to stop a red bug From runnin' off with Cunnle Wright—'t wuz jest a common CIMEX LECTULARIUS. One night I started up on eend an' thought I wuz to hum agin, I heern a horn, thinks I it's Sol the fisherman hez come agin, HIS bellowses is sound enough—ez I'm a livin' creeter, I felt a thing go ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton


Words linked to "Cimex" :   Cimicidae, bedbug, Cimex lectularius, chinch


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