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Squash bug   /skwɑʃ bəg/   Listen
Squash bug

noun
1.
Large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family.  Synonym: Anasa tristis.





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"Squash bug" Quotes from Famous Books



... commonly spoken of as "bugs." This term, however, is properly used only when referring to the one order of insects which includes the sap and blood-sucking insects such as the chinch bug, bed-bug, squash bug, and the like. Then too, there are many so-called "bugs" which are not insects at all. Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of ...
— An Elementary Study of Insects • Leonard Haseman


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