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cimex

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.

Examples

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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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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