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bedbug

/bed-buhg/US // ˈbɛdˌbʌg //UK // (ˈbɛdˌbʌɡ) //

臭虫,床虱,蝽蟓,壁虱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a flat, wingless, bloodsucking hemipterous insect, Cimex lectularius, that infests houses and especially beds.
    • : any of several other bloodsucking bugs of the family Cimicidae.

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Examples

  • You should be able to cure most issues, other than termites and bedbugs, without hiring a service.

  • One with no risk of running out of food, getting into trouble at port, or—yuck—hosting an infestation of bedbugs.

  • In fact, an Indian and a louse are natural allies—boon companions—and are as inseparable as the boarding-house bed and the bedbug.

  • The bedbug has not been seen in a year in Porto Rico, though there is no reason why it should not be here.

  • The bedbug is more of a tradition than a fact, and many of those who shudder at mention of him have never seen one of his kind.

  • Ants, especially the white ant, pay frequent visits to the house, but the worst scourge of all is the ravenous bedbug.

  • In Kansas, the bedbug is improperly called the chintz-bug, and is believed to dwell under the bark of the cotton-wood tree.