Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of several members of the genus Leptoglossus, which see, with cut.
- noun One of many different heteropterous insects which suck the juices of plants.
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Examples
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As we pursue our studies of insect growth and transformation we shall find that in some cases the difference between young and adult is much greater -- as for example between the maggot and the house-fly, in others far less -- as between the young and full-grown grasshopper or plant-bug.
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There is the advantage of having earlier plants by this mode and perfect security against the plant-bug, which will repay for the additional cost of raising at least a portion of the plants needed for the crop, by this safe mode.
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