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LYGAEID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
Synonyms:
lygaeid; lygaeid bug
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lygaeid" is a kind of...):
bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lygaeid"):
Blissus leucopterus; chinch bug (small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses)
Holonyms ("lygaeid" is a member of...):
family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)
