Meaning of cimex | Babel Free

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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