plant bug
noun
any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
Origin of plant bug
1An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
- Also called capsid, leaf bug .
Words Nearby plant bug
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How to use plant bug in a sentence
Knows of a plantation not mulched at all, that suffered more than any other this year from the tarnished plant bug.
There is an insect that produces similar trouble on other plants, a plant bug, which is hard to secure because it flies away.
Of the latter, Lygus pratensis, the tarnished plant-bug, is reported by Professor Crosby as sucking blood.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert Riley
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