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noun

any of several bugs of the family Anthocoridae that live on flowers and are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.

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Origin of flower bug

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby flower bug

flower, flowerage, flowerbed, flower beetle, flower box, flower bug, flower child, flower cluster, flower-de-luce, flowered, flowerer

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How to use flower bug in a sentence

He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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I was thinking about retiring from modeling, but spending that time with them rekindled that bug.
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
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But is bug protein really any better than traditional protein sources, like chicken, or your go-to protein powder?
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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The flower stems on the American varieties are much longer than those of European tobaccos and also larger.
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Black Sheep retreated to the nursery and read "Cometh up as a Flower" with deep and uncomprehending interest.
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Her face was mild and pale; but it was the transparent hue of the virgin flower of spring, clad in her veiling leaves.
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And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for flower bug

flower bug

noun

any of a number of bugs of the family Cimicidae, related to the debris bugs but frequenting flowers and feeding on the small insects found there

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