mealy_bug (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *mealy bug*:
NOUN	animal	mealy bug, mealybug	scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion

English > *mealy bug*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees.
Synonym	mealybug
Member of	Pseudococcidae, family Pseudococcidae	scalelike insects
Narrower	Comstock mealybug, Comstock's mealybug, Pseudococcus comstocki	Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States
	citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcus fragilis	destructive especially to citrus
	citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri	feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus
Broader	coccid insect	scale insects and mealybugs

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