LYGAEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lygaeidae mean? 

• LYGAEIDAE (noun)
  The noun LYGAEIDAE has 1 sense:

1. lygaeid bugs

  Familiarity information: LYGAEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYGAEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lygaeid bugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae

Hypernyms ("Lygaeidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Lygaeidae"):

lygaeid; lygaeid bug (a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees)

Blissus; genus Blissus (chinch bugs)

Holonyms ("Lygaeidae" is a member of...):

Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))