Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various homopterous insects, especially of the family Pseudococcidae, some of which are destructive to citrus trees and other plants.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, that secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, Coccus adonidum, and related species of the families
Pseudococcidae andEriococcidae ), that cover themselves with a white powderlike or cottony wax secretion. They are common plant-eating pests in hothouses and are also destructive of fruit trees.
WordNet 3.0
- n. scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
- n. scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
Etymologies
- So called because it is covered with a white powdery substance. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But new insects, including one called a mealybug, not known as cotton pests, have emerged, causing significant economic losses,”
“Now a new insect called mealybug (Phenococcus solenopsis) having its origin in USA is becoming a potential threat to cotton cultivation.”
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“In 1979, a Swiss scientist arrived in Ibadan, a Nigerian university town deep in cassava mealybug country.”
“The halt of the cassava mealybug may be a great success story, but there are stories of spectacular failure as well.”
“If even a single mealybug is hidden in the leaves, the new field, and the older fields around it, become infested.”
“Someone may have even taken a mealybug on a plane, because in 1985 it turned up several thousand miles away in Tanzania, where it began to spread from field to field.”
“Within three months, the mealybug population crashed.”
“The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture offered him a job, or, more precisely, a challenge: Could he find a parasite for the cassava mealybug?”
“They were sure they could handle the mealybug disaster.”
“The mealybug was catapulting from one city to another and then racing through the surrounding farm land “like a dust cloud,” says Herren.”
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