citrus mealybug

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   feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus

   SynonymsPlanococcus citri

   Broadermealybug

   Part ofPlanococcus

Questions about citrus mealybug

What does citrus mealybug mean?

citrus mealybug means "feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus".

What is another word for citrus mealybug?

Close synonyms include Planococcus citri. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is citrus mealybug a common word?

citrus mealybug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.