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–noun

1.	a flat, wingless, bloodsucking hemipterous insect, Cimex lectularius, that infests houses and esp. beds.

2.	any of several other bloodsucking bugs of the family Cimicidae.

Also, bed bug.

[Origin: 1800–10; bed + bug¹

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bed·bug also bed bug Audio Help (běd'bŭg') Pronunciation Key
n. A wingless odorous insect (Cimex lectularius) with a flat reddish body that infests dwellings and bedding and feeds on human blood. Also called regionally chinch, chinch bug.

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bedbug
noun
bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

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ˈbedbug noun

a small blood-sucking insect that lives in houses, especially beds

Arabic:	بَقُّ الفِراش
Chinese (Simplified):	臭虫
Chinese (Traditional):	臭蟲
Czech:	štěnice
Danish:	væggelus
Dutch:	wandluis
Estonian:	lutikas
Finnish:	lude
French:	punaise
German:	die Wanze
Greek:	κοριός
Hungarian:	poloska
Icelandic:	veggjalús
Indonesian:	kepinding, kutu busuk
Italian:	cimice dei letti*

Japanese:	なんきん虫
Korean:	빈대
Latvian:	blakts
Lithuanian:	blakė
Norwegian:	veggedyr
Polish:	pluskwa
Portuguese (Brazil):	percevejo
Portuguese (Portugal):	percevejo
Romanian:	ploşniţă
Russian:	клоп
Slovak:	ploštica
Slovenian:	stenica
Spanish:	chinche
Swedish:	vägglus
Turkish:	tahtakurusu

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Bedbug

Bed"bug`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.

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