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Cimex lectularius
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Translingual
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Proper noun
Cimex lectularius la 1 m
species family Cimicidae a common bedbug, an obligate parasite of humans, of worldwide distribution
en mul May Berenbaum This Bedbug’s Life w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08berenbaum.html 2010-08-07 I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood. https://web.archive.org/web/20241209221656/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08berenbaum.html 9 December 2024
Hypernyms
species Hemiptera order - order; Cimicidae family - family; Cimex genus - genus
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