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CITRUS MEALYBUG

Dictionary entry overview: What does citrus mealybug mean?

• CITRUS MEALYBUG (noun)
The noun CITRUS MEALYBUG has 1 sense:

1. feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus

Familiarity information: CITRUS MEALYBUG used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CITRUS MEALYBUG (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

citrus mealybug; Planococcus citri

Hypernyms ("citrus mealybug" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("citrus mealybug" is a member of...):

genus Planococcus; Planococcus (a genus of Pseudococcidae)

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