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LYGAEID BUG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lygaeid bug mean?
• LYGAEID BUG (noun)
The noun LYGAEID BUG has 1 sense:
1. a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
Familiarity information: LYGAEID BUG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
lygaeid; lygaeid bug
Hypernyms ("lygaeid bug" is a kind of...):
bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lygaeid bug"):
Blissus leucopterus; chinch bug (small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses)
Holonyms ("lygaeid bug" is a member of...):
family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)
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