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MEALY BUG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
Synonyms:
mealy bug; mealybug
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mealy bug" is a kind of...):
coccid insect (scale insects and mealybugs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mealy bug"):
citrophilous mealybug; citrophilus mealybug; Pseudococcus fragilis (destructive especially to citrus)
Comstock's mealybug; Comstock mealybug; Pseudococcus comstocki (Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees)
citrus mealybug; Planococcus citri (feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus)
Holonyms ("mealy bug" is a member of...):
family Pseudococcidae; Pseudococcidae (scalelike insects: mealybugs)
