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English noun: mealy bug

1. mealy bug (animal) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees


Synonymsmealybug


Broader (hypernym)coccid insect


Narrower (hyponym)citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, citrus mealybug, Comstock mealybug, Comstock's mealybug, Planococcus citri, Pseudococcus comstocki, Pseudococcus fragilis


Member meronymfamily Pseudococcidae, Pseudococcidae









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