mealy bug

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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

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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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