Usually means: Pest insect damages plants, crops.
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  1. mealy bug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. mealy bug: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mealy bug: Vocabulary.com
  4. mealy bug: Wiktionary
  5. Mealy bug, mealy bug: Dictionary.com
  6. Mealy bug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. mealy bug: Rhymezone
  8. mealy bug: FreeDictionary.org
  9. mealy bug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. mealy bug: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mealy bug: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mealy bug)

noun:  Alternative spelling of mealybug [Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.]

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