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n. - A variety of leaf bug.

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Usage examples (8)
  • "Our investigations in this case found that Marais and her company Zonda Resources Limited had imported and then bred large numbers of an insect known as a mirid bug...
  • The study reported on mirid populations between nineteen ninety-seven and two thousand eight.
  • Spraying against H. armigera used to destroy early mirid populations, limiting its impact on later crops.
  • Human tongue Shall hardly tell what infinite delight Sweet Mufic yields, for ever fafhioning Her fober pleafures to the various mirid.
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