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Definition of Bed bug
1. Noun. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
Generic synonyms: Bug, Hemipteran, Hemipteron, Hemipterous Insect
Group relationships: Cimex, Genus Cimex
Definition of Bed bug
1. Noun. (alternative form of bedbug) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bed Bug
Literary usage of Bed bug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The eggs of the bed-bug are minute white oval objects each having a projecting
rim around one end. They are laid in clusters in such crevices as are used by ..."
2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx, Daniel De Leon (1907)
"of December 10," anything but a duel with a bed-bug. But Bonaparte answered the
party of Order as Agesilaus did King Agis: "I seem to you an ant; ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"The cone-nose differs greatly from the common bed-bug, ... The common bed-bug is
much smaller, about three-sixteenths of an inch in length, ..."
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