Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bedbug

1 sense of bedbug

Sense 1
bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius -- (bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood)
       => hemipterous insect, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron -- (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)