FLOWER BUG

Meaning of FLOWER BUG in English

any of several bugs of the family Anthocoridae that live on flowers and are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.

[ 1885-90 ]

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FLOWER BUG — noun Date: circa 1889 any of various small mostly black-and-white predaceous bugs (family Anthocoridae) that frequent flowers and feed on …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FLOWER BUG — noun : any of various small mostly black-and-white predaceous bugs (family Anthocoridae) that frequent flowers and feed on pest insects …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FLOWER BUG — Date: circa 1889 : any of various small mostly black-and-white predaceous bugs (family Anthocoridae) that frequent flowers and feed on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FLOWER BUG — Function: noun Date: circa 1889 : any of various small mostly black-and-white predaceous bugs (family Anthocoridae) that frequent flowers and …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FLOWER BUG — [flower bug] n (ca. 1889): any of various small mostly black-and-white predaceous bugs (family Anthocoridae) that frequent flowers and feed …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FLOWER BUG — also called Minute Pirate Bug, or Anthocorid Bug, any member of the insect family Anthocoridae (order Heteroptera), which numbers about …
Britannica English vocabulary
FLOWER — I Reproductive portion of any flowering plant (angiosperm). Popularly, the term applies especially when part or all of the reproductive …
Английский словарь Британика
BUG — I Coding error in a computer program that prevents it from functioning as designed. Most software companies have a quality-assurance …
Английский словарь Британика
FLOWER
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BUG — I. ˈbəg noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English bugge scarecrow; akin to German dialect bögge piece of dried nasal …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FLOWER — (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the …
Английский словарь Webster
BUG — (n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
Английский словарь Webster
BUG — ( n. ) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
FLOWER — /flow"euhr/ , n. 1. the blossom of a plant. 2. Bot. a. the part of a seed plant comprising the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BUG — bug 1 /bug/ , n. , v. , bugged, bugging . n. 1. Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron . …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FLOWER — I. ˈflau̇(-ə)r noun Etymology: Middle English flour flower, best of anything, flour, from Anglo-French flur, flour, flaur, from Latin flor-, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BUG — I. ˈbəg noun Etymology: Middle English bugge hobgoblin; probably akin to Low German bögge goblin Date: 14th century obsolete : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FLOWER — noun menstrual discharges. 2. flower ·noun grain pulverized; meal; flour. 3. flower ·vi to come off as flowers by sublimation. …
Webster English vocab
BUG — noun a bugbear; anything which terrifies. 2. bug ·noun one of certain kinds of crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill …
Webster English vocab
FLOWER — [flow.er] n [ME flour flower, best of anything, flour, fr. OF flor, flour, fr. L flor-, flos--more at blow] (13c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BUG — [bug] n [ME bugge scarecrow; akin to Norw dial. bugge important man] (14c) obs: bogey, bugbear [2]bug n [origin unknown] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FLOWER — the reproductive portion of any plant in the division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), commonly called flowering plants or angiosperms. As popularly used, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BUG — commonly, any insect. In entomology, however, it refers specifically to any member of the insect order Heteroptera (e.g., chinch bug, …
Britannica English vocabulary
FLOWER — flower BrE AmE ˈfla ʊ ‿ə AmE ˈflaʊ‿ ə r (= flour) ▷ flowered ˈfla ʊ ‿əd AmE ˈflaʊ‿ ə …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FLOWER — / ˈflaʊə(r); NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. the coloured part of a plant from which the seed …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUG — / bʌg; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] ( especially NAmE ) any small insect …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FLOWER — I. flow ‧ er 1 S2 W2 /ˈflaʊə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Word Family: adjective : ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BUG — I. bug 1 S3 /bʌɡ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Perhaps from bug 'evil spirit, scarecrow' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FLOWER — n. & v. --n. 1 the part of a plant from which the fruit or seed is developed. 2 the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FLOWER — n. & v. n. 1 the part of a plant from which the fruit or seed is developed. 2 the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FLOWER — n. & v. --n. 1. the part of a plant from which the fruit or seed is developed. 2 the …
Oxford English vocab
FLOWER — ( flowers, flowering, flowered) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A flower …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUG — ( bugs, bugging, bugged) 1. A bug is an insect or similar small creature. ( INFORMAL ) We noticed tiny …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FLOWER — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bunch of flowers/roses/daffodils etc ▪ I picked a bunch of flowers from the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUG — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a flu virus/bug ▪ the spread of the flu virus a stomach bug (= …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FLOWER — n. crane flower cardinal flower thousand flowers flowering plant
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FLOWER — n. Reproductive portion of any flowering plant (angiosperm). Popularly, the term applies especially when part or all of the reproductive …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BUG — n. lightning bug assassin bug Bug River Western Bug River potato bug June bug pill bug sow bug squash bug …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FLOWER — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ bright , brightly coloured/colored , brilliantly coloured/colored , colourful/colorful ▪ fragrant , scented ▪ delicate ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BUG — I. noun 1 infectious illness ADJECTIVE ▪ nasty ▪ flu , stomach , tummy VERB + BUG ▪ have ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FLOWER — n. 25B6; noun blue flowers : BLOOM, blossom, floweret, floret. See lists. the flower of the nation's youth : BEST, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BUG — < programming > An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
BUG — n. 1 insect, beetle, larva, grub, caterpillar, butterfly, mosquito, fly, spider, Colloq Brit creepy-crawly, US no-see-em There's a bug on …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FLOWER
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BUG — I 1. сущ. 1) насекомое (особ. кровососущие); личинка насекомых; жук potato bug ≈ колорадский жук Syn : insect 2) энт. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FLOWER
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BUG — I Bug сущ.1) насекомое (особ. кровососущие); личинка насекомых; жук potato bug — колорадский жук Syn:insect 2) энт. клоп Syn:bed-bug, house-bug …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
FLOWER
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BUG — 1. bʌg n 1. энт. клоп ( Hemiptera spp. ) 2. жук; букашка 3. разг. 1> микроб the flue bug …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FLOWER — 1. сущ. 1) цветок ( растение или часть растения - бутон, головка, соцветие ) to grow flowers — выращивать цветы …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
BUG — I bʌɡ 1. сущ. 1) насекомое ( особ. кровососущие ) ; личинка насекомых; жук potato bug — колорадский жук Syn: …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FLOWER — 1. сущ. 1) цветок (растение или часть растения - бутон, головка, соцветие) to grow flowers — выращивать цветы to plant flowers — сажать …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
BUG — I [¤…±] Bug.wav 1. сущ. 1) насекомое (особ. кровососущие); личинка насекомых; жук potato bug — колорадский жук Syn: insect 2) зоол. клоп (тж. bedbug) 3) разг. вирус, …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
FLOWER — 1) цветок; цветущее растение; цвести; распускаться (о бутоне) 2) цветение • to be in flower — цвести to come into flower — вступать в …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
BUG — 1) клоп; pl клопы (Hemiptera) 2) мелкое насекомое; мелкое членистоногое • - alfalfa plant bug - alligator bugs - ambush bugs - anthocorid bugs - aquatic sow …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
FLOWER — 1) цветок; цветущее растение; цвести; распускаться ( о бутоне ) 2) цветение • to be in flower — цвести to …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
BUG — 1) клоп; pl клопы ( Hemiptera ) 2) мелкое насекомое; мелкое членистоногое • - alfalfa plant bug - alligator bugs …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
FLOWER — 1. _n. 1> цветок; цветковое растение 2> расцвет; цветение; in flower - в цвету; to come to full flower - …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
FLOWER — 1. n. 1. цветок; цветковое растение 2. расцвет; цветение; in flower - в цвету; to come to full flower - …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
BUG — 1) ошибка (в программе) (см. тж error); дефект 2) помеха; сбой • - arithmetic operation bug - array bug - character string bug - data bug - …
Англо-Русский словарь по вычислительной технике и программированию
FLOWER — 1. _n. 1> цветок; цветковое растение 2> расцвет; цветение; in flower в цвету; to come to full flower расцвести пышным …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
BUG
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