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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, the harlequin cabbage-bug (which see, under
cabbage-bug ). - noun A local name on the Atlantic coast of the United States of the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The calico bass.
- noun An hemipterous insect (
Murgantia histrionica ) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called alsocalico bug andharlequin cabbage bug .
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