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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:

1. chinch bugsplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS BLISSUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS BLISSUS (noun)


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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