Cimex

Origin

From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex ("bug").

Full definition of cimex

Noun

1. Any member of the genus , especially the bedbug.
• 1855, Henry G Dalton, The history of British GuianaSome of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs.
• 1967, Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fictionThere was a poor fellow during my remainder there that, for a new trick he had invented of killing cimices and scorpions, had his mountebank banner hung up...----