"Bedbug" is a word in ENGLISH
A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex
Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See
Illustration in Appendix.
Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.
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A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.
Read the complete definitionA small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
Read the complete definitionA coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, …
Read the complete definitionA genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, …
Read the complete definitionHaving females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, …
Read the complete definitionA genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal …
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as …
Read the complete definitionAny one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the …
Read the complete definitionA genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and …
Read the complete definitionA genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.
Read the complete definitionA small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.
Read the complete definitionIn Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or …
Read the complete definitionAn order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, …
Read the complete definitionAny one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see …
Read the complete definitionHaving no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
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