Usually means: Small, parasitic insect feeding nocturnally.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bedbug: Merriam-Webster
  2. bedbug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bedbug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bedbug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bedbug: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bedbug, bedbug: Wordnik
  7. bedbug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bedbug: Wiktionary
  9. bedbug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bedbug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bedbug: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bedbug: Dictionary.com
  13. Bedbug, The Bedbug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bedbug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bedbug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bedbug: Rhymezone
  17. Bedbug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bedbug: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bedbug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bedbug: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bedbug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bedbug: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bedbug: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. bedbug: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bedbug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bedbug: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bedbug)

▸ noun:  A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.
▸ noun:  Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.

Similar:
bed bug, chinch, cimex lectularius, bed-bug, bat bug, cimex, cimicid, mosquito, hornbug, kissing bug, more...

Opposite:
mosquito, flea, tick, louse

Types:
Cimex lectularius, Cimex hemipterus, Cimex pipistrellus, Cimex pilosellus, more...

Phrases:
big bedbug, The Bedbug, more...

Adjectives:
common, tropical, big, little, indian, female, mexican, single, true, ordinary, cosmopolitan

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Similar:
bed bug, chinch, cimex lectularius, bed-bug, bat bug, cimex, cimicid, mosquito, hornbug, kissing bug, more...

Opposite:
mosquito, flea, tick, louse

Types:
Cimex lectularius, Cimex hemipterus, Cimex pipistrellus, Cimex pilosellus, more...

Phrases:
big bedbug, The Bedbug, more...

Adjectives:
common, tropical, big, little, indian, female, mexican, single, true, ordinary, cosmopolitan



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