Bug: Definition and part of speech

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Bug

  1. n. One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
  2. n. A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
  3. n. A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
  4. n. An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
  5. n. One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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