PLANOCOCCUS CITRI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Planococcus citri mean? 

• PLANOCOCCUS CITRI (noun)
  The noun PLANOCOCCUS CITRI has 1 sense:

1. feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus

  Familiarity information: PLANOCOCCUS CITRI used as a noun is very rare.

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• PLANOCOCCUS CITRI (noun)

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Meaning:

Feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

citrus mealybug; Planococcus citri

Hypernyms ("Planococcus citri" is a kind of...):

mealy bug; mealybug (scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees)

Holonyms ("Planococcus citri" is a member of...):

genus Planococcus; Planococcus (a genus of Pseudococcidae)