Bedbug

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A wingless odorous insect (Cimex lectularius) with a flat reddish body that infests dwellings and bedding and feeds on human blood. Also called regionally chinch, chinch bug.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Small nocturnal insects of the family Cimicidae that feed on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The Cimex lectularius or Acanthia lectularia, infesting beds. See bug.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
  • n. bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bug    hemipteran    hemipteron    hemipterous insect   
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