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MEALY BUG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mealy bug mean?
• MEALY BUG (noun)
The noun MEALY BUG has 1 sense:
1. scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
Familiarity information: MEALY BUG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
mealy bug; mealybug
Hypernyms ("mealy bug" is a kind of...):
coccid insect (scale insects and mealybugs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mealy bug"):
citrophilous mealybug; citrophilus mealybug; Pseudococcus fragilis (destructive especially to citrus)
Comstock's mealybug; Comstock mealybug; Pseudococcus comstocki (Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees)
citrus mealybug; Planococcus citri (feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus)
Holonyms ("mealy bug" is a member of...):
family Pseudococcidae; Pseudococcidae (scalelike insects: mealybugs)
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