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cimex

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Definitions

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

Word origin

From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch.

Used in a sentence

  • 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...

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