Usually means: Small, sap-sucking, plant pest.
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  1. mealybug: Merriam-Webster
  2. mealybug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mealybug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mealybug: Vocabulary.com
  5. mealybug: Wordnik
  6. mealybug: Wiktionary
  7. mealybug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. mealybug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. mealybug: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. mealybug: Dictionary.com
  11. Mealybug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. mealybug: Rhymezone
  13. mealybug: FreeDictionary.org
  14. mealybug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. mealybug: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mealybug: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mealybug)

▸ noun:  Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.

Similar:
mealy bug, mealbug, mealywing, coccid, mealybug destroyer, piesmatid, fungus weevil, apple leaf midge, woolly adelgid, weevil, more...

Opposite:
predator, beneficial insect, parasitoid

Types:
citrus, cotton, pine, more...

Phrases:
citrus mealybug, comstock mealybug, citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, comstocks mealybug, more...

Adjectives:
citrophilus, tailed, citrus, common, pink, grape, longtailed, obscure, mango, spherical, female

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Similar:
mealy bug, mealbug, mealywing, coccid, mealybug destroyer, piesmatid, fungus weevil, apple leaf midge, woolly adelgid, weevil, more...

Opposite:
predator, beneficial insect, parasitoid

Types:
citrus, cotton, pine, more...

Phrases:
citrus mealybug, comstock mealybug, citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, comstocks mealybug, comstock's mealybug, more...

Adjectives:
citrophilus, tailed, citrus, common, pink, grape, longtailed, obscure, mango, spherical, female



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