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FAMILY LYGAEIDAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Synonyms:
family Lygaeidae; Lygaeidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Lygaeidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Lygaeidae"):
lygaeid; lygaeid bug (a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees)
Blissus; genus Blissus (chinch bugs)
Holonyms ("family Lygaeidae" is a member of...):
Hemiptera; order Hemiptera (plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas))