Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of sundry small true bugs or hemipterous insects which frequent the blossoms of flowering plants, as the species of Anthocoris.
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Examples
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He jumped from the griffin's back, fell into the foliage of a flower-bug bush, and scared up a swarm of flowerbugs.
The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979
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