cotton stainer

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   a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton

   Broaderheteropterous insect

   Part ofDysdercus

Questions about cotton stainer

What does cotton stainer mean?

cotton stainer means "a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton".

Is cotton stainer a common word?

cotton stainer 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.