The plural form of cimex, referring to multiple bugs from the genus Cimex.
Latin plural of cimex, following standard Latin second-declension nominative pluralization. This form maintains the classical Latin grammatical structure in modern scientific nomenclature.
In scientific Latin, knowing that cimex becomes cimices tells you about how Romans inflected their nouns—these grammatical patterns shaped how biologists still organize living things today!
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