| 单词 | mealybug |
| 释义 | mealybug (once / 2954828 pages) n WORD FAMILY mealybug USAGE EXAMPLESThe Centre used two parasitic wasps to control the mango mealybug from Asia, which did huge damage to mango trees in Benin in Africa. Wall Street Journal(Sep 09, 2016) That makes the mealybug a serious threat to food security in Indonesia, which already has one of the region’s highest child malnutrition rates. Washington Times(Sep 24, 2014) The wasps are being released in Indonesia, the latest country threatened by the mealybug. US News(Sep 24, 2014) n scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees Syn|Hypo|Hyper mealy bug Pseudococcus fragilis, citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug destructive especially to citrus Comstock mealybug, Comstock's mealybug, Pseudococcus comstockiAsiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees Planococcus citri, citrus mealybugfeeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus coccid insect scale insects and mealybugs |
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