MEALYBUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mealybug mean? 

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

1. scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEALYBUG (noun)

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 ("mealybug" is a kind of...):

coccid insect (scale insects and mealybugs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mealybug"):

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 ("mealybug" is a member of...):

family Pseudococcidae; Pseudococcidae (scalelike insects: mealybugs)