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Meanings of Cimex lectularius in inglés

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постельный клоп
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cimex lectularius
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xinxa del llit
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cimex lectularius
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Species of insect.

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        cimex lectularius
        portugués
        percevejo
        español
        cimex lectularius

        Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.

              cimex lectularius
              Synonyms
              Examples for "bedbug"
              Examples for "bedbug"
              1
              The place was full of roaches and occasionally I killed a bedbug.
              Junky
              2
              During decades of low bedbug infestation, scientists didn't study them much.
              Wired
              3
              Well, just some of his nutty stuff, I guess; he's crazier'n a bedbug.
              The long saturday night
              4
              Grey crushed another bedbug, but his mind was not on it.
              King Rat
              5
              First, you're not a real bedbug but a pirate bug, a close cousin.
              Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
              1
              Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
              The Insect Folk
              2
              In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
              Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
              3
              There are a great many bugs injurious to vegetation, among them the little chinch bugs.
              The Insect Folk
              4
              The chinch-bug is responsible for the loss of five per cent., or one bushel out of every twenty.
              Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
              5
              I ain't no pulpit chinch.
              Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
              1
              Even if making a new bed bug insecticide were lucrative, there are other challenges.
              BBC
              2
              This requires intimate knowledge of the bed bug's basic biology.
              BBC
              3
              Thus, 88% of the bed bug populations collected showed target-site mutations.
              Pubmed
              4
              Common bed bug under an electron microscope.
              Radio NZ
              5
              The worst aspect about this is that we thought we had tackled the bed bug problem before.
              BBC
              Usage of Cimex lectularius in inglés
              1
              The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, has re-established itself as a ubiquitous human ectoparasite throughout much of the world during the past two decades.
              Pubmed
              2
              Don't let the Cimex Lectularius bite.
              The witch of agnesi