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