(n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
(n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
(n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
(n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(2) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(3) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
(4) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
(5) The number of people affected by an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug could have passed 1 million, the Health Protection Agency has reported.
(6) The BUG increases 3.9-fold in DNA content from day 0 (day of birth) to day 6 postnatally; the epithelium grows proportionately more than the mesenchyme during this period (12-fold vs. 2.3-fold).
(7) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
(8) The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the highly variable region of the kinetoplast minicircle of Trypanosoma cruzi directly in biological samples (feces of infected Triatomine bugs, blood samples of experimentally infected mice, and artificially infected human blood samples).
(9) At 67, Young apparently feels the strain as much as everyone: "[His] wrist bugs him, and he has to tape it when he plays," Sampedro said.
(10) Gordon has been doing live insect cooking demonstrations across the United States since 1998 and estimates that he’s cooked bugs for some 100,000 people.
(11) More than 150,000 people were struck down with the winter vomiting bug during the festive period, the latest figures suggest.
(12) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
(13) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(14) A good example of this is the Innovative Medicines Initiative's new drugs for bad bugs programme .
(15) Indeed, diglycerides constitute the largest neutral lipid fraction in the hemolymph of silkmoths, locusts, cockroaches, bugs, etc.
(16) Television's natural instinct was now simply to go on and on, to consume the infinite time stretching out in front of it, like those cartoons where Bugs Bunny is frantically laying down railway track so the train he is on can keep moving.
(17) But I've changed my mind – I think the Olympic bug might have caught on.
(18) And Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein has been bugged, of course.
(19) The information was fed into a DNA synthesizer, which produced short strands of the bug's DNA.
(20) Using this method, far more bugs can be used than in conventional xenodiagnosis increasing the likelyhood of detecting at least one infected T. infestans.
Flea
Definition:
(v. t.) To flay.
(n.) An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and Dog flea. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(2) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
(3) Rats were caught, and they and their fleas were identified.
(4) Efficacy of polyvinyl chloride collars containing temephos [0,0'-(thiodi-4,1-phenylene) 0,0,0',0'-tetramethyl bis-(phosphorothioate)] was elevaluated in dogs and cats against the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis).
(5) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
(6) The results indicate that some cat-allergic patients have specific IgE both towards cat and cat flea but also that some of the patients with suspected cat allergy might have specific IgE towards the cat flea and not the cat.
(7) Over 60 forms of parasites were found out as follows: three species of blood parasites, 12 species of Coccidia, 8 species of cestodes, 12 species of nematodes, one species of Acanthocephalus, three species of chigger mites, 15 species of gamasid mites, 6 species of ixodid ticks, fleas and lice.
(8) Dissection of fleas gave, however, positive results.
(9) Hungry but previously "prepared" for winter fleas lived at a temperature from 0 to 2 degrees not more than 376 days.
(10) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(11) He and bassist Flea wrote letters of support to the women, which have been given to them in prison.
(12) All these hosts carried a lower proportion of reproductive fleas than their monthly sample proportion.
(13) It was considered that Ctenocephalides canis could be of great public health significance in this area in view of the high population of the flea.
(14) Infection in humans or animals by the common tapeworm of dogs and cats (Dipylidium caninum) requires ingestion of the intermediate host, the dog or cat flea containing the larva (cysticercoids) of the agent.
(15) Rabbit fleas Spilopsyllus cuniculi (Dale) were present on both sexes of rabbit at all times of the year.
(16) The larval flea diet had a small effect on the subsequent cestode development and the adult fleas' reaction to it.
(17) Almost all the patients with HP who were studied show hypersensitivity to flea bites.
(18) However, if, after six days, the fleas were transferred from an environment of 18 degrees C to one at 24 degrees C or 30 degrees C, the rickettsial growth increased by two or three logs within one week.
(19) Following exposure, samples of flea eggs were processed for microscopic examination and seeded onto carpet swatches containing flea-rearing medium in order to assess egg hatch, and larval, pupal, and adult development.
(20) When the number of fleas was increased to 250 and 500 specimens the progeny decreased in number.