HEMIPTER Synonyms

• bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone

• any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

• a slight but appreciable amount

• any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

• two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

• a metallic tapping sound

• any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

• a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.

• a light mattress

• make a clicking or ticking sound

• make a sound like a clock or a timer

• sew

• put a check mark on or near or next to