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FAMILY LYGAEIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Lygaeid bugs

Synonyms:

family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Lygaeidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Lygaeidae"):

lygaeid; lygaeid bug (a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees)

Blissus; genus Blissus (chinch bugs)

Holonyms ("family Lygaeidae" is a member of...):

Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))

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