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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Colorado potato beetle.
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- noun the
Colorado beetle , Leptinotarsa decimlineata
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- noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
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