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CIMEX

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cimices   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs

Synonyms:

Cimex; genus Cimex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Cimex" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Cimex"):

bed bug; bedbug; chinch; Cimex lectularius (bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood)

Holonyms ("Cimex" is a member of...):

Cimicidae; family Cimicidae (wingless flat-bodied bloodsucking insects)

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