genus dysdercus

1. 1.

   a genus of slender long-legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it

   SynonymsDysdercus

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofPyrrhocoridae

Questions about genus dysdercus

What does genus dysdercus mean?

genus dysdercus means "a genus of slender long-legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it".

What is another word for genus dysdercus?

Close synonyms include Dysdercus. 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 genus dysdercus a common word?

genus dysdercus 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.