- Bloodsucking insect - Insect type - Parasitic insect - Small bloodsucking insect with a round, wingless body - Small thing that nips in the night - A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex
Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See
Illustration in Appendix.
- A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in
insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in
water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel,
hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely
diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.