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Mealy Bug

Definition: Mealy Bug

Mealy Bug

Noun

1. Scale-like plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Mealy Bug

Synonym: mealybug (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Mealy Bug

English words defined with "mealy bug": mealy-mouthed. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: Mealy Bug

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	THE BAHAMAS	In June 1996, the Ministry announced a ban on the importation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, plants or other propagate materials from Caribbean countries unless the Department of Agriculture is assured that the country is free of the pink (or hibiscus) mealy bug. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mealy Bug

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mealy bug	111
mealy bug control	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Mealy Bug

Language		Translations for "mealy bug"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏حشرة (bug, insect, roach). (various references)

Bulgarian		щитоносна въшка (scale-bug). (various references)

Hungarian		bíbortetû. (various references)

Pig Latin		ealymay ugbay

Portuguese		pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, Gray, grey, honeysuckle, liner, livid, lurid, off colour, offence, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, perse, sallow, sickly, tallowy, wan, washed out, white-headed). (various references)

Romanian		vierme alb. (various references)

Spanish		gusano de harina (mealworm). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Mealy Bug

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mealybug.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-l-m-u-y"
	-2 letters: beluga, gamble, gamely, gleamy, maguey.
	-3 letters: agley, album, algum, almug, amble, bagel, balmy, beamy, begum, belay, belga, blame, bluey, blume, bugle, bulge, bulgy, embay, gable, gambe, gamey, gleam, gleba, gluey, glume, lamby, maybe, mealy, muley, ulema, umbel.
	-4 letters: able, ably, abye, agly, ague, alme, alum, amyl, bale, balm, beam, beau, bema, blae, blam.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-l-m-u-y"
	+1 letter: mealybugs.
	+4 letters: umbrageously, unmanageably.
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Alternative Orthography: Mealy Bug

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 61 6C 79 42 75 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100101 01100001 01101100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01110101 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#97 &#108 &#121 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0061 006C 0079 0042 0075 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47716778912368773

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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