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Definition of Cimices
1. cimex [n] - See also: cimex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cimices
Literary usage of Cimices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of British Guiana: Comprising a General Description of the by Henry G. Dalton (1855)
"Upon the numerous labiate plants which abound here several pretty species of the
cimices are met with, and arrange their tiny eggs on the leaves. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"I meane the cimices, after that being once taken and bruise: upon the naile of
a man, doth cover the whole naile with bloud and stinke. ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... to give their verdict in cases of Justice; without whose opinion and sentence
nothing can be certainely determined. cimices. ..."