Mirid
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any insect of the family Miridae, a plant bug.
"Mirids continued to be underappreciated as predators even after several species had been used successfully in classical biological control in the 1920s and 1930s."
- 2 a variety of leaf bug wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"Mirids continued to be underappreciated as predators even after several species had been used successfully in classical biological control in the 1920s and 1930s."
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Miridae.