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Definition of Cimex

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs.

Definition of Cimex

1. n. A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

Definition of Cimex

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

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Definition of Cimex

1. a bedbug [n -MICES] - See also: bedbug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cimex

Literary usage of Cimex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of American North of Mexico: Excepting the by Edward Payson Van Duzee (1917)
"2, p. 721, 1767, Cimer. Fabricius, Ent. Syst., p. 710, 1775, cimex. ... 292, 1787, cimex Gmelin in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Edn. 13, i, pt. 4, p. ..."

2. The Animal Parasites of Man: A Handbook for Students and Medical Men by Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun, Pauline Falcke, Louis Westenra Sambon, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1908)
"It seems pretty certain that these cimex only take one meal of blood between ... cimex rotundatus, Signoret, 1852. Somewhat larger than the ordinary bed bug ..."

3. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1900)
"cimex lectularius. Bedbug. 2V. 0. Hemiptera. Tincture or trituration. Clinical.—Constipation. Cough. ... cimex is an ancient remedy for intermittent fever. ..."

4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"At first the new-born insect is yellowish-white and nearly transparent, but becomes darker after it feeds and grows until Fig 17s.—cimex ..."

5. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the by William Sweetland Dallas (1851)
"cimex oculatus, Fab. ES iv. 99. 79 (1794). Halys oculata, Fab. SR 181. ... cimex clavatus, Fab. ES Supp. 532. 67 (1798). Halys clavata, Fab. SR 181. ..."

6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1849)
"The solution entering the wood rendered it an unfit, and probably a poisonous habitation for the cimex. The prevention of these animals is of more ..."

7. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1849)
"... and Prevention of the cimex Lectularius. By Dr T. STRATTON, ... the last two months are letters on the prevention of the bed-bug, the cimex lectularius. ..."

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