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meal·y·bug
(mē′lē-bŭg′)n.
Any of various soft-bodied scale insects covered with a white powdery substance, especially of the family Pseudococcidae, some of which are destructive to ornamental and agricultural plants.
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meal•y•bug
(ˈmi liˌbʌg)n.
any of several scalelike homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
[1815–25]
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Noun | 1. | mealybug - scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees coccid insect - scale insects and mealybugs family Pseudococcidae, Pseudococcidae - scalelike insects: mealybugs citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcus fragilis - destructive especially to citrus Comstock mealybug, Comstock's 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 |
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