Noun: cimex
| Singular | cimex |
| Plural | cimices |
Sample Sentences
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Some of these cimices are extremely pretty, but if handled emit their disagreeable perfume. I have met with about a dozen species of these bugs. [1855, Henry G Dalton, The history of British Guiana:]
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There 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... [1967, Merritt E Lawlis, Elizabethan prose fiction:]
Nouns inflected like cimex
nanovortex,
hypervertex,
microvortex,
insular cortex,
antivertex,
antivortex,
prepollex,
proscolex,
supervertex,
covertex,
refractive index,
somatic sensory cortex,
epicortex,
eyewall mesovortex,
anterior cingulate cortex,
archicortex,
posterior cingulate cortex,
open index,
suffrutex,
cimex, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch. See: Latin Nouns '
cīmex'.