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POPILLIA JAPONICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America
Synonyms:
Japanese beetle; Popillia japonica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Popillia japonica" is a kind of...):
scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)
Holonyms ("Popillia japonica" is a member of...):
genus Popillia; Popillia (a genus of Scarabaeidae)
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