conchuela
English edit
Etymology edit
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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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014