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Cimex Lectularius

Definition: Cimex Lectularius

Cimex Lectularius

Noun

1. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Cimex Lectularius

Synonyms: bed bug (n), bedbug (n), chinch (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Cimex Lectularius

Non-English Usage: "Cimex Lectularius" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (bed bug, bugged, bugs).

Image Slideshow: Cimex Lectularius

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cimex Lectularius

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cimex lectularius	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Cimex Lectularius

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-i-l-l-m-r-s-t-u-u-x"
	-5 letters: clericalism, clericalist, excruciates.
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Alternative Orthography: Cimex Lectularius

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 69 6D 65 78 4C 65 63 74 75 6C 61 72 69 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101001 01101101 01100101 01111000 00100000 01001100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#105 &#109 &#101 &#120 &#32 &#76 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0069 006D 0065 0078 004C 0065 0063 0074 0075 006C 0061 0072 0069 0075 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

377579719024671698687786784758785

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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