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PLANOCOCCUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of Pseudococcidae

Synonyms:

genus Planococcus; Planococcus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Planococcus" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Planococcus"):

citrus mealybug; Planococcus citri (feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus)

Holonyms ("Planococcus" is a member of...):

family Pseudococcidae; Pseudococcidae (scalelike insects: mealybugs)

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