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Webster 1913 Edition


Bedbug

Bed′bugˊ

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (
Cimex Lectularius
), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

Definition 2024


bedbug

bedbug

See also: bed bug

English

A bedbug

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Noun

bedbug (plural bedbugs)

  1. A small nocturnal insect, of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts.

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