mealy bug
English Thesaurus
1. scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | coccid insect, |
definition | : | scale insects and mealybugs (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, pseudococcus fragilis, |
definition | : | destructive especially to citrus (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | comstock mealybug, comstock's mealybug, pseudococcus comstocki, |
definition | : | Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | citrus mealybug, planococcus citri, |
definition | : | feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | family pseudococcidae, pseudococcidae, |
definition | : | scalelike insects: mealybugs (noun.animal) |
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