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GENUS BLISSUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Blissus mean?
• GENUS BLISSUS (noun)
The noun GENUS BLISSUS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS BLISSUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chinch bugs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Blissus; genus Blissus
Hypernyms ("genus Blissus" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Blissus"):
Blissus leucopterus; chinch bug (small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses)
Holonyms ("genus Blissus" is a member of...):
family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)
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