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Noun: lygaeid  lI'jee-id
  1. A true bug: usually bright-coloured; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
    "The lygaeid infestation severely affected the cotton yield";
    - lygaeid bug

Derived forms: lygaeids

Type of: bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect

Part of: family Lygaeidae, Lygaeidae