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spotted cucumber beetle
noun
Definition of SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE
: a rather slender greenish-yellow beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi) that feeds as an adult on various ornamental and crop plants and is a vector of wilt disease especially of cucumbers and melons
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1923
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