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: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (especially Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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Singh says bedbugs could infest the clothes inside your luggage.
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Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025
One strange example of this is traumatic insemination in bedbugs, where males bypass the female's reproductive tract and inject sperm directly into her abdomen.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Amid the growing bedbug panic, Pietri wasn’t the only scientist who started wondering whether bedbugs’ potential as disease vectors had been understudied.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long considered bedbugs a public health pest.
—Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025
One strange example of this is traumatic insemination in bedbugs, where males bypass the female's reproductive tract and inject sperm directly into her abdomen.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Amid the growing bedbug panic, Pietri wasn’t the only scientist who started wondering whether bedbugs’ potential as disease vectors had been understudied.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long considered bedbugs a public health pest.
—Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Bedbug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedbug. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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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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