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Bedbug vs Cimex - What's the difference?

bedbug | cimex |

As nouns the difference between bedbug and cimex

is that bedbug is a small nocturnal insect of the family that feed on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts while cimex is any member of the genus , especially the bedbug.

bedbug

English

(wikipedia bedbug)

Alternative forms

* bed bug, bed-bug

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small nocturnal insect of the family that feed on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts.

    • Derived terms

    * don't let the bedbugs bite

    cimex

    English

    (wikipedia cimex) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (cimices)
  • Any member of the genus , especially the bedbug.
  • * 1855 , Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana
    • 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.
  • * 1967 , Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fiction
    • 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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