Word Meanings - CIMEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

Related words: (words related to CIMEX)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXAMPLESS
  Exampleless. B. Jonson.
• EXAMPLE
  orig., what is taken out of a larger quantity, as a sample, from 1. One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen. 2. That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy. For I have
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• EXAMPLER
  A pattern; an exemplar.
• BEDBUG
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• EXAMPLELESS
  Without or above example.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• HEMIPTERAL; HEMIPTEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.
• WELL-KNOWN
  Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.
• UNBEKNOWN
  Not known; unknown.