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mealy bug
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mealy bug has 1 sense
- mealy bug(n = noun.animal) mealybug - scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees; Array is a kind of coccid insect
is a member of family pseudococcidae, pseudococcidae
has particulars: citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, pseudococcus fragilis, comstock mealybug, comstock's mealybug, pseudococcus comstocki, citrus mealybug, planococcus citri
CIDE DICTIONARY
mealy bug, n.
Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, Coccus adonidum , and related species of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae ), that cover themselves with a white powderlike or cottony wax secretion. They are common plant-eating pests in hothouses and are also destructive of fruit trees. [1913 Webster]
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