harlequin bug in British English
noun
a brightly coloured heteropterous insect, Murgantia histrionica, of the US and Central America: a pest of cabbages and related plants: family Pentatomidae
harlequin bug in American English
US
a black-and-red, hemipterous stink bug (Murgantia histrionica) that feeds on cabbages and related plants
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Word lists withharlequin bug
bug- to get hitched (to sb)
- to get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick
- to get impatient (at or with sth)
- to get in a lather or to work o.s. up into a lather (over or about sth)
- to get in a muddle
- to get in sb's hair
- to get into an argument (with sb)
- to get into a panic
- to get into a state
- to get into bed
- to get into high gear
- to get into or up to mischief
- to get into the swing of things
- to get in touch with sb
- to get it over with
- to get killed
- to get laid
- to get left behind
- to get lost
- to get married
- to get married in a registry office
- to get/miss the point
- to get mixed up
- to get mixed up (about sth)
- to get off a bus/train