tarnished plant bug

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   widespread plant and fruit pest

   SynonymsLygus lineolaris

   Broaderlygus bug

Questions about tarnished plant bug

What does tarnished plant bug mean?

tarnished plant bug means "widespread plant and fruit pest".

What is another word for tarnished plant bug?

Close synonyms include Lygus lineolaris. 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 tarnished plant bug a common word?

tarnished plant bug 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.