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ladybird beetle

noun

small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests

• Syn: ↑ladybug, ↑ladybeetle, ↑lady beetle, ↑ladybird

• Hypernyms: ↑beetle

• Hyponyms:

↑two-spotted ladybug, ↑Adalia bipunctata, ↑Mexican bean beetle, ↑bean beetle, ↑Epilachna varivestis, ↑Hippodamia convergens, ↑vedalia, ↑Rodolia cardinalis

• Member Holonyms: ↑Coccinellidae, ↑family Coccinellidae

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noun

see ladybird 1

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/lay'dee berrd'/

ladybug. Also called ladybird.

[1730-40, Amer.; LADY (uninflected possessive case) Virgin Mary + BIRD; i.e. (our) Lady's bird]

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ladybird beetle,

= ladybug. (Cf. ↑ladybug)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.