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单词 cimex
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cimexn.

/ˈsʌɪmɛks/
Forms: Plural cimices. Also ? 1500s–1600s cimice, 1600s chimice, cimisse, cimise.
Etymology: < Latin cīmex, plural cīmices , or its Italian representing cimice ; compare chinch n.2 The plural cimices may belong to either cimex or cimice.
A bed-bug. Now only (in form Cimex) as the entomological name of the genus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > cimex lectularius (bed-bug)
punaisec1530
wall-louse1540
cimex1585
bug1622
chincha1640
want-louse1655
wiglouse1658
bedbug1740
B. flat1853
Norfolk Howard1862
mahogany flat1864
1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. S iij The smale stynkynge wormes that brede in paper or wod called Cimices.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cimisse, a noysome little worme flat and red which raiseth wheals where it biteth: If it bee broken it yieldeth a stinking smell.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §696 Cimices are found in the holes of Bedsides.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 999 The stinking Beetle some confound with the Cimex or Wall-louse.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 182 When Wars broke out, they crept out of their Cranies, like the Cimici, in the Houses of Italy.
a1706 J. Evelyn Mem. (1819) I. 201 Bedsteads..of forged iron gilded, since it is impossible to keepe the wooden ones from ye Chimices.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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