Noun: bedbug 'bed,búg
- Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
"The hotel had to fumigate several rooms due to a bedbug outbreak";
- bed bug, chinch [N. Amer, informal], Cimex lectularius
Derived forms: bed bugs, bedbugs
Type of: bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect
Part of: Cimex, genus Cimex
Encyclopedia: Bedbug, California