: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (especially Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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She was given foul-smelling blankets overrun with bedbugs.—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 26 May 2025 Some scientists are hesitant to call bedbugs the first urban pest, however.—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025 The novel describes souls who, in the wheel of time, inhabit the Frankish king Clovis’ horse, or a bedbug that fed on Napoleon.—Nicholas Dames, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 Taking an aircraft out of service for bedbug treatment is a significant undertaking, according to Rob Tuck, the president of the aviation consulting firm Jet Research.—Ryan Craggs, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bedbug
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