Ladybird - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
* 1914 , Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America , Volume 7,
* 1927 , Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood?s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury , Volume 1,
* 1976' September 30, Denis Owen, '''''Ladybird''', '''ladybird , fly away home'', ,
* 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology , Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition,
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has no English definition.
As a noun ladybird
is any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.ladybird
English
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(en noun)page 81,
- During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird', making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ' ladybird .
Gutenberg eBook #19993,
- Lady-bird', ' lady-bird , fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
page 686,
- Ladybirds , unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
page 2130,
- Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds' in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ' ladybird species into North America.