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Mealy bug   Listen
noun
mealy bug, mealybug  n.  (Zool.), Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, Coccus adonidum, and related species of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae), that cover themselves with a white powderlike or cottony wax secretion. They are common plant-eating pests in hothouses and are also destructive of fruit trees.





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Words linked to "Mealy bug" :   mealybug, Comstock mealybug, coccid insect, Pseudococcus fragilis, citrophilous mealybug, family Pseudococcidae, Planococcus citri, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcidae, Pseudococcus comstocki, Comstock's mealybug, citrus mealybug


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