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: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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The Seine is super polluted, and remember last Paris Fashion Week when everyone got bedbugs?
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 June 2024
Life Bedbugs sucked blood in the age of dinosaurs
Despite the moniker, bedbugs evolved long before mattresses and even survived the K-T extinction.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
The Super 8 had bedbugs, and the food provided by the contractor hired by the city to run the program, DocGo, sometimes sickened her children, Mayra said.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
Here are common ways bedbugs get in, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture:
Used furniture: Secondhand furniture, especially mattresses, bed frames and couches, can harbor bedbugs.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2024
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 June 2024
Life Bedbugs sucked blood in the age of dinosaurs
Despite the moniker, bedbugs evolved long before mattresses and even survived the K-T extinction.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
The Super 8 had bedbugs, and the food provided by the contractor hired by the city to run the program, DocGo, sometimes sickened her children, Mayra said.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
Here are common ways bedbugs get in, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture:
Used furniture: Secondhand furniture, especially mattresses, bed frames and couches, can harbor bedbugs.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2024
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bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg 
: a wingless bloodsucking bug sometimes infesting houses and especially beds
Medical Definition
bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg
: a wingless bloodsucking bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
called also chinch
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