Terms vs Cimex - What's the difference?
terms | cimex |
Any member of the genus , especially the bedbug.
* 1855 , Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana
* 1967 , Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fiction
As nouns the difference between terms and cimex
is that terms is while cimex is any member of the genus , especially the bedbug.cimex
Noun
(cimices)- 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.
- 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...
