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LYGAEID

Dictionary entry overview: What does lygaeid mean?

• LYGAEID (noun)
The noun LYGAEID has 1 sense:

1. a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees

Familiarity information: LYGAEID used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LYGAEID (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lygaeid; lygaeid bug

Hypernyms ("lygaeid" is a kind of...):

bug; hemipteran; hemipteron; hemipterous insect (insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lygaeid"):

Blissus leucopterus; chinch bug (small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses)

Holonyms ("lygaeid" is a member of...):

family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae (lygaeid bugs)

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