cimex

plural cimices

1. Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.

   Some of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs.

   1855, Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana

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   There was a poor fellow during my remainder there that, for a new trick he had invented of killing cimices and scorpions, had his mountebank banner hung up...

   1967, Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fiction