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Definition of Dysdercus
1. Noun. A genus of slender long-legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it.
Exact synonyms: Genus Dysdercus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Pyrrhocoridae, Pyrrhocoridae
Member holonyms: Cotton Stainer
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Pyrrhocoridae, Pyrrhocoridae
Member holonyms: Cotton Stainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysdercus
Literary usage of Dysdercus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... with red and is a very beautiful insect, and derives its popular name from
the (act that it stains the cotton in the bursting bolls Fig. zo1.—Dysdercus ..."
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