colorado potato beetle

What does colorado potato beetle mean?

colorado potato beetle means "black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide".

What is another word for colorado potato beetle?

Close synonyms include Colorado beetle, potato bug, potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. 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 colorado potato beetle a common word?

colorado potato beetle 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for colorado potato beetle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.