bedbug — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.

   Exemplos

   Fiona rapidly discovered that the hotel was infested with bedbugs.

   In Morocco, love philtres are composed of yolk of egg and bedbugs.

2. Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.

Substantivo

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

   Sinônimos

   bed bugchinchCimex lectularius

   Termos mais gerais

   hemipterous insectbughemipteranhemipteron