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squash bug definition

☆ squash bug

a large, dark-colored hemipteran insect (Anasa tristis) that attacks squash vines and similar plants

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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