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: a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (especially Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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In 2022, the Disneyland Resort agreed to pay $100,000 to a resort hotel guest in a lawsuit settlement addressing claims she was bitten by bedbugs during a visit in 2018.
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Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
The bat-feeding bedbugs, on the other hand, have continued to decline.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
The bedbugs may have finally been eliminated, thanks to Cryonite freezing and high-heat treatment, but cockroaches are here forever.
—Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
They are sometimes mistakenly associated with locusts, like grasshoppers, but cicadas are actually an entirely different sort of insect, part of the same family as stink bugs and bedbugs.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
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Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
The bat-feeding bedbugs, on the other hand, have continued to decline.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
The bedbugs may have finally been eliminated, thanks to Cryonite freezing and high-heat treatment, but cockroaches are here forever.
—Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
They are sometimes mistakenly associated with locusts, like grasshoppers, but cicadas are actually an entirely different sort of insect, part of the same family as stink bugs and bedbugs.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Bedbug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedbug. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg 
: a wingless bloodsucking bug sometimes infesting houses and especially beds
Medical Definition
bedbug
noun
bed·bug
ˈbed-ˌbəg
: a wingless bloodsucking bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
called also chinch
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