cucumber beetle

cucumber beetle
noun
: any of several leaf beetles that are especially injurious to cucumbers and squashes, attacking the leaves as adults and the roots and stems as larvae — see spotted cucumber beetle, striped cucumber beetle; compare corn rootworm

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any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt.
[1835-45, Amer.]

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  • Cucumber beetle — Cucumber Cu cum*ber (k? k?m b?r, formerly kou k?m b?r), n. [OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen.cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus {Cucumis}, esp.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Cucumber beetle — The Cucumber Beetle Spotted Cucumber Beetle …   Wikipedia

  • cucumber beetle — any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt. [1835 45, Amer.] * * * Any of several leaf beetles (genus Diabrotica) that are important… …   Universalium

  • Spotted cucumber beetle — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

  • Striped cucumber beetle — Taxobox name = Acalymma vittatum regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Coleoptera familia = Chrysomelidae subfamilia = Galerucinae tribus = Luperini genus = Acalymma species = A. vittatum binomial = Acalymma vittatum The… …   Wikipedia

  • striped cucumber beetle — noun : a yellowish black striped beetle (Acalymma vittata) that feeds as a larva on the underground parts of cucumbers and other cucurbits and as an adult on foliage and flowers of cucurbits and other crop plants and that is a vector of bacterial …   Useful english dictionary

  • Cucumber — Cu cum*ber (k? k?m b?r, formerly kou k?m b?r), n. [OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen.cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus {Cucumis}, esp. {Cucumis… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Cucumber tree — Cucumber Cu cum*ber (k? k?m b?r, formerly kou k?m b?r), n. [OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen.cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus {Cucumis}, esp.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • spotted cucumber beetle — noun Date: 1923 a rather slender greenish yellow beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi) that feeds as an adult on various ornamental and crop plants and is a vector of wilt disease especially of cucumbers and melons …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • spotted cucumber beetle — noun A kind of beetle …   Wiktionary

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