conchuela
English
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]conchuela (plural conchuelas)
- Chlorochroa ligata, a stinkbug of Central America and North America.
- Synonym: conchuela bug
- 1910, Austin Winfield Morrill, Plant-bugs Injurious to Cotton Bolls, page 41:
- The insect becomes freed from its old skin usually in the course of twenty or thirty minutes, although in one observation a conchuela in molting its fifth-instar skin required slightly over an hour.
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]conchuela f (plural conchuelas)
Further reading
[edit]- “conchuela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10