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mealbug

mealbug is the alternative form of mealybug.

Meaning of mealybug

Noun

mealybug (plural mealybugs)

  1. Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.

Forms of mealbug

pluralmealbugs

Questions about mealbug

What is mealbug the alternative form of?
Mealbug is the alternative form of mealybug.

Words near mealbug in the dictionary

  1. mealable
  2. mealbag
  3. mealbags
  4. mealbeetle
  5. mealbeetles
  6. mealbug
  7. mealbugs
  8. meale
  9. mealed
  10. mealer
  11. mealers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mealbug (page history and authors); mealybug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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