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Dysdercus — noun a genus of slender long legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it • Syn: ↑genus Dysdercus • Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Pyrrhocoridae, ↑family Pyrrhocoridae … Useful english dictionary
Dysdercus suturellus — Cotton Cot ton (k[o^]t t n), n. [F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. {Acton}, {Hacqueton}.] 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
arthropod genus — noun a genus of arthropods • Hypernyms: ↑genus • Hyponyms: ↑Phalangium, ↑genus Phalangium, ↑Chelifer, ↑genus Chelifer, ↑Mastigoproctus, ↑genus Mastigoproctus, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Pyrrhocoridae — noun firebugs • Syn: ↑family Pyrrhocoridae • Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family • Member Holonyms: ↑Heteroptera, ↑suborder Heteroptera • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
cotton stainer — noun a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton • Hypernyms: ↑heteropterous insect • Member Holonyms: ↑Dysdercus, ↑genus Dysdercus … Useful english dictionary
family Pyrrhocoridae — noun firebugs • Syn: ↑Pyrrhocoridae • Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family • Member Holonyms: ↑Heteroptera, ↑suborder Heteroptera • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
cotton stainer — noun Date: 1856 any of several bugs (genus Dysdercus) that damage and stain the lint of developing cotton; especially a red and brown bug (D. suturellus) that attacks cotton in the southern United States … New Collegiate Dictionary
cottonstainer — cotton stainer n. Any of various small, flat, red and black bugs of the genus Dysdercus that pierce cotton bolls and stain the fibers. * * * … Universalium
cotton stainer — any of several large red and black bugs of the genus Dysdercus that puncture oranges and cotton bolls and discolor cotton fibers: a serious pest in America and India. [1855 60, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
red bug — ▪ insect also called Stainer, Firebug, or Pyrrhocorid Bug, any insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae (order Heteroptera), which contains more than 300 species. The red bug a fairly common, gregarious, plant feeding insect found mostly in… … Universalium
