| 单词 | mealybug |
| 释义 | mealybug in British Englishnoun plant-eating homopterous insect mealybug in American English (ˈmiliˌbʌg) noun any of a family (Pseudococcidae) of destructive homopteran insects, having a soft body protected by a white, flourlike or cottony wax secretion mealybug in American English (ˈmiliˌbʌɡ) noun any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants Word origin [1815–25; mealy + bug1]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aesthetic, artifact, coupon, heuristic, reamerExamples of 'mealybug' in a sentence |
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