Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of several malodorous bugs, particularly the common squash-bug, Anasa tristis, of the Coreidæ. See cut under
squash-bug .
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Examples
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[Illustration: Cluster of golden-brown eggs of squash stink-bug showing two recently hatched nymphs.]
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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[Illustration: Squash stink-bug adult and nymph extracting sap from squash.]
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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This common blackish or earth-colored bug is usually called the squash stink-bug.
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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[Illustration: Pumpkin in field covered with adults and nymphs of squash stink-bug.]
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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_Squash-bug: _ -- This is the large, black, flat "stink-bug," so destructive of squash and the other running vines.
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Between a snail and a stone he could find little difference, and as the one bug he tried happened to be that asafoetida-like creature known as a stink-bug he made no further efforts in that direction.
Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903
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When approached by an enemy, the stink-bug presents one side to the foe, crouching down on the opposite side, thus elevating its battery, and waits until its molester is within range; it then fires its broadside at the enemy.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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The stink-bug in this seems to be governed and directed by _reason_, though the means used for defence must come under the head of instinct.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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The stink-bug (_pentatomid_) or bombardier bug (not the "bombardier beetle") has, on the sides of its abdomen near its middle coxæ ( "hip bone"), certain bladder-like glands which secrete an acrid, foul-smelling fluid; [112] it has the power of ejecting this fluid at will.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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Or an alert when weather changes might trigger a stink-bug invasion?
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Andrew Alexander 2010
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