BUG

Cooley's Cyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information · 1880 · p. 18

Syn. Ci′mex , L.; Punaisé , Fr.; Wanse , Ger. A name popularly and very loosely applied to a vast number of insects that infest houses and plants; in zoology , hemipterous insects of the genus ‘cimex,’ of which there are many hundred species; appr., the bed-bug.