Definition of Dysdercus

1. Noun. A genus of slender long-legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it.

Exact synonyms: Genus Dysdercus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Pyrrhocoridae, Pyrrhocoridae
Member holonyms: Cotton Stainer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysdercus

Dyck word
Dyck words
Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome
Dyirbal
Dykehead
Dylan
Dylan Marlais Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dyle
Dynamo
Dynapen
Dynbaer
Dyngus Day
Dyophysite
Dyrk kinase
Dysdercus (current term)
Dysnomia
Dyson sphere
Dyson spheres
Dytiscidae
Dyula
Dyushambe
Dyuti
Dzierzynszczyzna
Dzodinka
Dzogchen
Dzongkha
Dzungaria
Dáil Éireann
Díthorba

Literary usage of Dysdercus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... with red and is a very beautiful insect, and derives its popular name from the (act that it stains the cotton in the bursting bolls Fig. zo1.—Dysdercus ..."

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