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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs;
[syn: Cimex, genus Cimex]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cimex \Ci"mex\, n.; pl. Cimices. [L., a bug.] (Zool.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Cimex n 1: type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs [syn: Cimex, genus Cimex]