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colorado beetle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun colorado beetle has 1 sense
- colorado beetle(n = noun.animal) colorado potato beetle, leptinotarsa decemlineata, potato beetle, potato bug - black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide; Array is a kind of chrysomelid, leaf beetle
is a member of genus leptinotarsa, leptinotarsa
CIDE DICTIONARY
colorado beetle,
A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata ), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug . See Potato beetle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
colorado beetle, n. a yellow and black striped beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, the larva of which is highly destructive to the potato plant.
Etymology
Colorado in the US
ROGET THESAURUS
colorado beetle
Evil doer
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