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: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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Like fleas or bedbugs, leaping thoughts that were both inconsequential and biting, vexing.
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Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Adult bedbugs are about the size of an apple seed and are long, brown or reddish-brown with flat bodies.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
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Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Adult bedbugs are about the size of an apple seed and are long, brown or reddish-brown with flat bodies.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
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bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg 
: a wingless bloodsucking bug sometimes infesting houses and especially beds
Medical Definition
bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg
: a wingless bloodsucking bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
called also chinch
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