1. Noun
The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
2. Noun
A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
3. Noun
bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
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