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bug bugged bug·ging : to plant a concealed microphone in [ an office] compare eavesdrop, wiretap ...
millennium bug
An error in the coding of certain computer programs which store the year component of the date as two digits assuming that the first two digits are 19 rather than as a complete number of four digits when such programs are used after January 1 2000 the date may be misinterpreted causing serious errors or total failure of the program called also year 2000 bug year 2000 problem and Y2K bug...
Croton bug
A small active winged species of cockroach Ectobia Germanica the water bug It is common aboard ships and in houses in cities esp in those with hot water pipes called also the German cockroach...
Coreidae
a natural family containing the squash bugs and leaf footed bugs...
Dor
A large European scaraboid beetle Geotrupes stercorarius which makes a droning noise while flying The name is also applied to allied American species as the June bug Called also dorr dorbeetle or dorrbeetle dorbug dorrfly and buzzard clock...
Sea bug
A chiton...
Pinacate bug
Any of several clumsy wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes found in the Pacific States...
VerbarNepa
A genus of aquatic hemipterous insects The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity called also scorpion bug and water scorpion...
VerbarLepisma
A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles A common species Lepisma saccharina is found in houses and often injures books and furniture it feeds on starch and eats sized paper and starched clothes Called also shiner silverfish silver witch silver moth and furniture bug...
Leaf footed
Having leaflike expansions on the legs said of certain insects as the leaf footed bug Leptoglossus phyllopus...
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