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FOUR-LINED PLANT BUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does four-lined plant bug mean? 

FOUR-LINED PLANT BUG (noun)
  The noun FOUR-LINED PLANT BUG has 1 sense:

1. yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back; widespread in central and eastern North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: FOUR-LINED PLANT BUG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOUR-LINED PLANT BUG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back; widespread in central and eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

four-lined leaf bug; four-lined plant bug; Poecilocapsus lineatus

Hypernyms ("four-lined plant bug" is a kind of...):

capsid; mirid; mirid bug (a variety of leaf bug)

Holonyms ("four-lined plant bug" is a member of...):

genus Poecilocapsus; Poecilocapsus (a genus of Miridae)


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