cimex lectularius

Questions about cimex lectularius

What is another word for cimex lectularius?

It depends which cimex lectularius you mean. In the sense “bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood”, the synonyms are bedbug, bed bug, chinch. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cimex lectularius?

WordNet records no antonym for cimex lectularius. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cimex lectularius come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for cimex lectulariusAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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